On Living Through Soviet Russia

by Thompson; PAUL R

• ISBN13: 9780415309660
• ISBN10: 0415309662
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The new policy ofglasnostat the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(24)
Daniel Bertaux
Anna Rotkirch
Paul Thompson
PART I Creating Soviet Society
The cultural model of the Russian popular classes and the transition to a market economy	25	(29)
Daniel Bertaux
Marina Malysheva
Equality in poverty: the symbolic meaning of kommunalki in the 1930s-50s	54	(14)
Victoria Semenova
Coping with revolution: the experiences of well-to-do Russian families	68	(25)
Ekaterina Foteeva
PART II Personal and Family Life
`What kind of sex can you talk about?': acquiring sexual knowledge in three Soviet generations	93	(27)
Anna Rotkirch
Family models and transgenerational influences: grandparents, parents and children in Moscow and Leningrad from the Soviet to the market era	120	(26)
Victoria Semenova
Paul Thompson
`Coming to stand on firm ground': the making of a Soviet working mother	146	(30)
Anna Rotkirch
The strength of small freedoms: a response to Ionin, by way of stories told at the dacha	176	(19)
Naomi Roslyn Galtz
PART III The Marginal and the Successful
Memory and survival in Stalin's Russia: old believers in the Urals during the 1930s-50s	195	(19)
Irina Korovushkina Paert
The returned of the repressed: survival after the Gulag	214	(21)
Nanci Adler
Success stories from the margins: Soviet women's autobiographical sketches from the late Soviet period	235	(17)
Marianne Liljestrom
Epilogue: researching with interview sources on Soviet Russia	252	(6)
Daniel Bertaux
Paul Thompson
Anna Rotkirch
Bibliography	258	(13)
Index	271