ABSTRACT
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 of glasnost at 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
part |67 pages
Creating Soviet Society
part |101 pages
Personal and Family Life
chapter |27 pages
‘What Kind of Sex can you Talk About?'
Acquiring Sexual Knowledge in Three Soviet Generations
chapter |26 pages
Family Models and Transgenerational Influences
Grandparents, Parents and Children in Moscow and Leningrad from the Soviet to the Market Era
chapter |17 pages
The Strength of Small Freedoms
A Response to Ionin, by Way of Stories Told at the Dacha
part |65 pages
The Marginal and the Successful
chapter |20 pages
Memory and Survival in Stalin's Russia
Old Believers in the Urals during the 1930s–50s
chapter |17 pages
Success Stories from the Margins
Soviet Women's Autobiographical Sketches from the Late Soviet Period
