On Living Through Soviet Russia

by Daniel Bertaux (Editor), Anna Rotkirch (Editor), Paul Thompson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415859967
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/20/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Bertaux is Directeur de Recherches at the Centre d’Etudes des Mouvements Sociaux, Paris. For several years after 1991 he organised the collection of case histories of families in Russia in order to document what ordinary Russians had been through during seventy years of state ‘socialism’.,
Paul Thompson is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Community Studies, London. He is FounderEditor of Oral History and Founder of the National Life Story Collection at the British Library, London.,
Anna Rotkirch is a sociologist at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has specialised in comparative research on families and sexuality, autobiographical research and Russian studies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch, Paul Thompson; Part 1 Creating Soviet Society; Chapter 2 The Cultural Model of the Russian Popular Classes and the Transition to a Market Economy, Daniel Bertaux, Marina Malysheva; Chapter 3 Equality In Poverty, Victoria Semenova; Chapter 4 Coping With Revolution, Ekaterina Foteeva; Part 2 Personal and Family Life; Chapter 5 ‘What Kind of Sex can you Talk About?’, Anna Rotkirch; Chapter 6 Family Models and Transgenerational Influences, Victoria Semenova, Paul Thompson; Chapter 7 ‘Coming to Stand on Firm Ground’, Anna Rotkirch; Chapter 8 The Strength of Small Freedoms, Naomi Roslyn Galtz; Part 3 The Marginal and the Successful; Chapter 9 Memory and Survival in Stalin’s Russia, Irina Korovushkina Paert; Chapter 10 The Return of the Repressed, Nanci Adler; Chapter 11 Success Stories from the Margins, Marianne Liljeström; Chapter 12 Epilogue, Daniel Bertaux, Paul Thompson, Anna Rotkirch;