On living through Soviet Russia

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"On Living Through Soviet Russia analyses, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated at a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendants of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial working class or religious minorities. It examines in turn the implications of family relationships, working mothers, absent fathers and caretaking grandmothers; patterns of eating together and of housing; the secrecy of sexuality; the suppression of religion; and the small freedoms such as growing vegetables at weekends on a dacha plot. Because of its basis in direct testimonies, the book reveals in a highly readable and direct style the meaning for ordinary men and women of living through those seven decades of state socialism."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Case studies,  Social conditions,  Moral conditions,  Communism and family,  Oral history,  Communism and families,  Soviet union, social conditions,  Soviet union, biography,  Soviet union, moral conditions,  Soviet union, economic conditions,  Communisme et familles,  Études de cas,  Histoire orale,  Conditions sociales,  Mœurs et coutumes,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Anthropology,  Cultural,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Public Policy,  Cultural Policy,  Popular Culture,  Manners and customs,  Sociale situatie

Places: Soviet Union