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Author : Donald J. Raleigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199311234
Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.
Author : Donald J. Raleigh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2006-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253112149
Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first-graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly distanced itself from the excesses of Stalinism. Reaching middle age during the Gorbachev Revolution, they negotiated the transition to a Russian-style market economy and remain active, productive members of society in Russia and the diaspora. In candid interviews with Donald J. Raleigh, these Soviet "baby boomers" talk about the historical times in which they grew up, but also about their everyday experiences -- their family backgrounds; childhood pastimes; favorite books, movies, and music; and influential people in their lives. These personal testimonies shed valuable light on Soviet childhood and adolescence, on the reasons and course of perestroika, and on the wrenching transition that has taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Author : Victor Brooks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1566637244
Brooks chronicles the peaceful children's invasion of America that occurred from Dr. Spock to Woodstock. The author explores the home life, leisure activities, and school environment of children who grew up during the Cold War years.
Author : Marko Dumančić
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1487531850
Men Out of Focus charts conversations and polemics about masculinity in Soviet cinema and popular media during the liberal period – often described as "The Thaw" – between the death of Stalin in 1953 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The book shows how the filmmakers of the long 1960s built stories around male protagonists who felt disoriented by a world that was becoming increasingly suburbanized, rebellious, consumerist, household-oriented, and scientifically complex. The dramatic tension of 1960s cinema revolved around the male protagonists’ inability to navigate the challenges of postwar life. Selling over three billion tickets annually, the Soviet film industry became a fault line of postwar cultural contestation. By examining both the discussions surrounding the period’s most controversial movies as well as the cultural context in which these debates happened, the book captures the official and popular reactions to the dizzying transformations of Soviet society after Stalin.
Author : Bruce Cannon Gibney
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0316395803
In his "remarkable" (Men's Journal) and "controversial" (Fortune) book -- written in a "wry, amusing style" (The Guardian) -- Bruce Cannon Gibney shows how America was hijacked by the Boomers, a generation whose reckless self-indulgence degraded the foundations of American prosperity. In A Generation of Sociopaths, Gibney examines the disastrous policies of the most powerful generation in modern history, showing how the Boomers ruthlessly enriched themselves at the expense of future generations. Acting without empathy, prudence, or respect for facts--acting, in other words, as sociopaths--the Boomers turned American dynamism into stagnation, inequality, and bipartisan fiasco. The Boomers have set a time bomb for the 2030s, when damage to Social Security, public finances, and the environment will become catastrophic and possibly irreversible--and when, not coincidentally, Boomers will be dying off. Gibney argues that younger generations have a fleeting window to hold the Boomers accountable and begin restoring America.
Author : Stephen McMillion
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,26 MB
Release : 2016-03-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781716640636
At the end of WW II, the United States and the Soviet Union, each bristling with missiles and nuclear armaments, squared off against each other in a fight for world dominance, thus staging the dynamic into which the Baby Boomers were born. As the United States amassed its power and sparred against global communism's expansionary ambitions, they were the ones who had to stand on the front lines, both cold and hot, and one way or anther, stand they did. It defined their generation and changed the world, and Seasons of Empire tells you how it happened. Tells of those who got sucked into the vortex, spun around and around, and spit out again. It's their story. And so much more.
Author : Sean McMeekin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0674072332
The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been viewed as the primary culprit. Now, in a major reinterpretation of the conflict, Sean McMeekin rejects the standard notions of the war’s beginning as either a Germano-Austrian preemptive strike or a “tragedy of miscalculation.” Instead, he proposes that the key to the outbreak of violence lies in St. Petersburg. It was Russian statesmen who unleashed the war through conscious policy decisions based on imperial ambitions in the Near East. Unlike their civilian counterparts in Berlin, who would have preferred to localize the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russian leaders desired a more general war so long as British participation was assured. The war of 1914 was launched at a propitious moment for harnessing the might of Britain and France to neutralize the German threat to Russia’s goal: partitioning the Ottoman Empire to ensure control of the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Nearly a century has passed since the guns fell silent on the western front. But in the lands of the former Ottoman Empire, World War I smolders still. Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Jews, and other regional antagonists continue fighting over the last scraps of the Ottoman inheritance. As we seek to make sense of these conflicts, McMeekin’s powerful exposé of Russia’s aims in the First World War will illuminate our understanding of the twentieth century.
Author : Alexei Yurchak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400849101
Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. Focusing on the major transformation of the 1950s at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual, Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, ideals, and pursuits that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from Late Socialism and the post-Soviet period. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state.
Author : Patrick Alexander
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2023-06-06
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ISBN :
Boomer tells the story of a generation born in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and whose members, the Baby Boomers, are now in their mid to late seventies. It is a generation that has experienced more technological, social, and cultural changes than any other in history. The austerity and rationing of the boring grey fifties were followed by the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll of the swinging sixties. After the endless industrial strife and international terrorist attacks of the seventies, and the sunny optimism of Reagan and Thatcher's eighties, the Boomers finally took control in the nineties under Clinton and Blair. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the promise of the emerging new technologies and social media, the baby Boomers were leading us to a truly brave new world. But sadly, the promise of a new century seems to have only brought us 9/11, AIDS, Covid, red v blue states, Brexit, MAGA and the Donald. Boomer traces the decline and fall of the British Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the rise, if only temporary, of the American Empire. The world's population has quadrupled since 1946 and where to place all those extra people is one of the greatest problems we face today. The book begins with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and ends with the coronation of her son, King Charles III and examines how the monarchy can survive in the 21st century. With the baby boomers retiring from the workforce and from public life, the book examines the world that the boomers are leaving behind for the next generation.
Author : Jim Chambers
Publisher : Jim Chambers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0557091004
As one of the first post-WWII Baby Boomers, Jim Chambers' childhood and early teenage years were in the 1950s, a remarkable decade for the United States that saw enormous political, technological, and cultural changes. Although many books have covered the headline-making events of the era in great detail, few of these books give the reader a real feel for what daily life was like for Americans living in that decade, especially for kids growing up then. The author remembers the little nuts and bolts things of daily life for families during the fascinating decade known as the Fabulous Fifties. "Recollections" perfectly blends paying homage to the little day-to-day rituals with a larger scale examination of social issues and mores of the times, and it's equally entertaining on either level. "Recollections" is a warm, lovingly honest, and fascinating portrait of America in the mid-20th Century.