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Public and Private Life of the Soviet People: Changing Values in Post-Stalin Russia

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From the late 1950s to the early 1980s, the Soviet people’s acceptance of official state ideology was gradually replaced by an emphasis on the family and the individual. Perhaps one of the most important social, economic, and political processes to occur in modern Soviet society, privatization has caused people to withdraw their time, energy, and emotion from state controlled activities, investing them instead in family and friendship. Utilizing novels, films, and his own surveys done in the Soviet Union, the author, an emigre sociologist, analyzes the evolution of attitudes toward family and friendship and the emergence and development of civil society as a sphere of interaction not directed by the state. Finally, Shlapentokh examines Gorbachev’s reforms as an attempt by the political elite to restore the authority of the state and the prestige of official public activity as well as to exploit some elements of privatization in the interests of the state. A gripping and revealing account of an aspect of Soviet society usually hidden from Westerners, this book will attract a broad audience.
Request Code : ZLIBIO1491475
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Year:
1989
Edition:
1St Edition
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
296
ISBN 10:
0195042662
ISBN 13:
9780195042665
ISBN:
0195042662,9780195042665

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