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Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964-1985
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2012
Summary
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state was not simply an oppressive institution that dictated how to live and what to think—it also responded to and was shaped by individuals’ needs.
In Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–85, Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova bring together scholarship examining the social and cultural life of the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1964 to 1985. This interdisciplinary and comparative study explores topics such as the Soviet middle class, individualism, sexuality, health, late-socialist ethics, and civic participation. Examining this often overlooked era provides the historical context for all post-socialist political, economic, and social developments.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7583-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7584-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
252
Product type
Edited Book
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: What Was Late Socialism? No access Pages 1 - 14
1 Plutonium Enriched: Making Bombs and Middle-Classes No access Pages 15 - 42
2 A Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in the Late-Soviet Era No access Pages 43 - 66
3 “Cultural Wars” in the Closed City of Soviet Ukraine, 1959–1982 No access Pages 67 - 90
4 Soviet Ethical Citizenship: Morality, the State, and Laughter in Late Soviet Lithuania No access Pages 91 - 116
5 Pluralizing Practices in Late-Socialist Moscow: Russian Alternative Practitioners Reclaim and Redefine Individualism No access Pages 117 - 142
6 Football in the Era of “Changing Stagnation”: The Case of Spartak Moscow No access Pages 143 - 162
7 Beyond the Genres of Stagnation: Reading the Allure of I. Grekova’s The Hotel Manager No access Pages 163 - 182
8 Raped with Politburon: Bawdy Humor and Disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky’s Prose No access Pages 183 - 202
Afterword: Postcard from Berlin: Rethinking the Juncture of Late Socialism and Late Liberalism in Europe No access Pages 203 - 214
