TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Hedrick TI - The Russians SN - 0812905210 AV - DK276 .S53 1976 U1 - 947 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co. KW - Soviet Union KW - Social life and customs KW - 1970-1991 KW - Social conditions N1 - 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; English UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/russians/oclc/1909281&referer=brief_results ER -