The Russians / Hedrick Smith.

By: Smith, Hedrick Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., c1976. Description: xii, 706 p. ; 18cmISBN: 0812905210; aSubject(s): Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 1970-1991 | Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1970-1991DDC classification: 947 LOC classification: DK276 | .S53 1976Online resources: WorldCat details

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? TOC

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Fiction	947 SMR 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		6097

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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

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