The Russians / Hedrick Smith.
An intimate and personal account of contemporary life in Russia. Author examines the life-styles and aspirations of every level of Russian society.
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New York :
Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co.,
©1976.
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Table of Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The people
- The privileged class: dachas and zils
- Consumers: the art of queuing
- Corruption: living na levo
- Private life: Russians as people
- Women: liberated but not emancipated
- Children: between parent and teacher
- Youth: rock without roll
- The system
- Rural life: why they won't stay down on the farm
- Industrial life: Skoro Budnt: it'll be here soon
- Leaders and led: nostalgia for a strong boss
- The party: communist rituals and communist jokes
- Patriotism: world war II was only yesterday
- Siberia: high rises on the permafrost
- Information: white tass and letters to the editor
- Issues
- Culture: cat and mouse
- Intellectual life: the archipelago of private culture
- Religion: Solzhenitsyn and the Russianness of Russia
- Dissent: the modern technology of repression
- The outside world: province of the privileged and the pariahs
- Convergence: are they becoming more like us?