Living Through the Soviet System analyzes, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level. It will be of importance to students, researchers and teachers of history and sociology, as well as specialists in East European and other communist societies.
Table of Contents:
Notes on contributors, 1 Introduction, PART I Creating Soviet Society, PART II Personal and Family Life, PART III The Marginal and the Successful, Bibliography, Index
About the Author :
Daniel Bertaux is directeur de recherches at the Centre d'Etudes des Mouvements Sociaux, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Paul Thompson is research professor in sociology at the University of Essex and fellow at the Institute of Community Studies in London. Anna Rotkirch is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Helsinki.
Review :
-Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era.- --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review
-Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time.-
--Lynne Viola, Seer
"Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era." --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review
"Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time."
--Lynne Viola, Seer
"Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era." --Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review
"Living Through the Soviet System is therefore an especially valuable work. This book is an anthology of articles by an international collective of authors, many of whom have participated in generating the new sources. . . . Many of the life histories tell us all as much about the present--that is, the early-to-mid 1990s--as they do about the past. This is however, a strength, given that they capture a pivotal moment in time."
--Lynne Viola, Seer
"Read critically, it can reveal both the traditional assumptions that still underlie much study of the Soviet era and early efforts to question those assumptions. The epilogue offers a very useful survey of interview projects conducted during and after the Soviet era."
---Frederick C. Corney, Slavic Review
