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Author : James R. Millar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521348900
This book illustrates how the Soviet social system works and how the Soviet people cope with it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : OSU:32435051489367
Author : ScottForesman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0673240320
Author : Kees Boterbloem
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474285490
Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: * Food * Health and Housing * Sex and Gender * Education * Religion (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) * Sport and Leisure * Festivals There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the gulag, life as a peasant, life in the military and what it was like to be disabled in Stalin's Russia. The book also engages with the wider Soviet Union wherever possible to ensure the most in-depth discussion of life, in all its minutiae, under Stalin. This is a vitally important book for any student of Stalin's Russia keen to know more about the human history of this complex period of dictatorship.
Author : Christina Kiaer,Eric Naiman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 025321792X
How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
Author : Margaret Wettlin
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0471028770
A gripping account of Soviet life as experienced by an American who lived for 50 years on an absolutely equal basis with Russians. Packed with details of everyday life from giving birth in a Soviet hospital to living in a Moscow communal apartment. Forced to give up her American citizenship during Stalin's reign, Wettlin was coerced into becoming an informant for the KGB. She describes what Russia was like during and after World War II, her travels from the Baltic states to Siberia, Outer Mongolia, Leningrad, Uzbekistan and Georgia. Her mesmerizing book offers a background for understanding Soviet events that molded the Russian mind--from revolutionary enthusiasm to a complete repudiation of communism.
Author : New Holland Publishers Pty, Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0867770848
Author : Horst Herlemann,Shaun Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000308815
"Quality of life" is a difficult concept to define, and particularly so when referring to the Soviet Union because Westerners have many preconceptions about Soviet living conditions. This volume goes a long way toward illuminating the realities of daily Soviet life and stands as an important contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union. Contributors focus primarily on the relation of quality of life to living conditions but also discuss the quality and availability of state-provided services such as education, health care, and housing. Of special interest is their coverage of problems in Soviet society, including working conditions in factories, living conditions in rural areas, alcohol abuse, and the status of the elderly. Together these essays show that although the Soviet government has made great strides in improving the living conditions of its citizens, Soviet living standards and services are relatively poor by Western standards and several important social problems continue to burden the Soviet people.
Author : Mervyn Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136716034
First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms, the people who enjoyed them. This study is based on an extensive programme of personal interviews among emigré groups and a close analysis of original and little-known legal historical sources. There are special sections on the nature of change in the Soviet elite and on social mobility. This reissue will attract interest amongst students and scholars concerned with the history, politics and sociology of the Soviet Union; it will also be of value to all those concerned with the age-old problem of social equality.
Author : Ilya Zemtsov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351316828
A by-product of the amazing changes now taking place within the Soviet Union is a change in rhetoric no less than reality. Under Gorbachev, the Russian language has been changing parallel with novoe politichaskoe myshenie - new political thinking - with the effect that such new expressions as have flooded the Russian language clash with the less yielding realities of Soviet economy and society. The purpose of this volume is to clarify this dynamic in Soviet life, in which stagnation and decay confront hopes and expectations for liberalization. Zemtsov argues that the Soviet political language is self-contradictory, fractured into polarities of good and evil and thus depriving the Russian language of its basic subtlety, coherence, and inner logic. This work brings to life the Orwellian world of double-speak in a post-totalitarian environment. The Soviet language has two basic components: fictions which Communist ideology proclaims as reality, and realities that are portrayed in the guise of fictions. In this sense, Zemtsov undertakes to do for the Soviet language what the great H. L. Mencken achieved for the American language -show the reality of Soviet life by making plain the fictive qualities of Soviet ideology. This is a basic library reference work, a volume of indispensable utility for political scientists, area experts, and policy analysts. It offers a taxonomy enriched by a deep, personal knowledge of the Russian language by its author. Encyclopedia of Soviet Life is at one and the same time a basic primer of Soviet contemporary politics, a deep portrait of the psychology of totalitarian manipulation, and a sensitive appreciation of the nobler aspirations of the Russian people that is part and parcel of their great language.
Author : Rick Smolan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0002553333
Author : Rick Smolan,David Cohen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0002179695
Photographs and accompanying text depict everyday events in the Soviet Union.
Author : Katherine Eaton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313061103
Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, timeline, annotated multimedia bibliography, and detailed index make it a sound starting point for looking at this powerful nation's immediate past. What was ordinary life like in the Soviet police state? The phrase daily life implies an orderly routine in a stable environment. However, many millions of Soviet citizens experienced repeated upheavals in their everyday lives. Soviet citizens were forced to endure revolution, civil war, two World Wars, forced collectivization, famine, massive deportations, mass terror campaigns perpetrated against them by their own leaders, and chronic material deprivations. Even the perpetrators often became victims. Many millions, of all ages, nationalities, and walks of life, did not survive these experiences. At the same time, millions managed to live tranquilly, work in factories, farm the fields, serve in the military, and even find joy in their existence. Structured topically, this volume begins with an historical introduction to the Soviet period (1917-1991) and a timeline. Chapters that follow are devoted to such core topics as: government and law, the economy, the military, rural life, education, health care, housing, ethnic groups, religion, the media, leisure, popular culture, and the arts. The volume also has two maps, including a map of ethnic groups and languages, and over thirty photographs of people going about their lives in good times and bad. A glossary, a list of student-friendly books and multimedia sources for classroom and/or individual use, and an index round out the work, making it a valuable resource for high school as well as undergraduate courses on modern Russian and Soviet history. Copious chapter endnotes provide numerous starting points for students and teachers who want to delve more deeply.
Author : Svetozar Pejovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4432766
Author : Alex Inkeles,Raymond Augustine Bauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003511030