The Russians /
Smith, Hedrick.
The Russians / Hedrick Smith. - New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976. - xii, 706 p. ; 18cm.
Online version:
Smith, Hedrick.
Russians.
New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976
(OCoLC)559373100
Includes index.
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? TOC
0812905210 a
75038781
Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1970-1991.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991.
DK276 / .S53 1976
947 / SMR 1976
The Russians / Hedrick Smith. - New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976. - xii, 706 p. ; 18cm.
Online version:
Smith, Hedrick.
Russians.
New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976
(OCoLC)559373100
Includes index.
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? TOC
0812905210 a
75038781
Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1970-1991.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991.
DK276 / .S53 1976
947 / SMR 1976