The Russians

by Smith, Hedrick

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Title Statements

Full title :The Russians / Hedrick Smith.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1976

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ballantine Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1976

Notes

First Ballantine Books edition, January 1977.

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 706 pages ; : 18 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0345297644, 9780345297648, 0812905210, 9780812905212, 0345276000, 9780345276001
oclc:ocm10410513
LC Classification:DK276
Dewey Decimal:947.084

The people. The privileged class : Dachas and Zils -- Consumers : the art of queuing -- Corruption: living nalevo -- 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 budet, 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?

Subjects

74.19 geography of Europe Manners and customs Rusia -- Condiciones sociales -- 1970 Social conditions Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 19… Soviet Union -- Social life and customs… URSS -- Conditions sociales -- 1970-1991 URSS -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1970-1991