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

by Vladimir Shlapentokh

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195042662
• ISBN13: 9780195042665
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"