On Living Through Soviet Russia

Abstract

1. Introduction Daniel Bertaux, Anna Rotkirch and Paul Thompson Part One: Creating Soviet Society 2. The Cultural Model of the Russian Popular Classes and the Transition to a Market Economy Daniel Bertaux in collaboration with Marina Malysheva 3. Equality in Poverty: the Symbolic Meaning of Kommunalki in the 1930s-50s Victoria Semenova 4. Coping with Revolution: the Experiences of Well-to-do Russian Families Ekaterina Foteeva Part Two: Personal and Family Life 5. 'What Kind of Sex Can You Talk About?' Acquiring Sexual Knowledge in Three Soviet Generations Anna Rotkirch 6. Family Models and Transgenerational Influences: Grandparents, Parents and Children in Moscow and Leningrad from the Soviet to Market Era Victoria Semenova and Paul Thompson 7. 'Coming to Stand on Firm Ground': the Making of a Soviet Mother Anna Rotkirch 8. The Strength of Small Freedoms: Stories Told at the Dacha Naomi Roslyn Galtz Part Three: The Marginal and the Successful 9. Religion and Survival in Stalin's Russia: the Old Believers in the Urals during the 1930s-50s Irina Korovushkina Paert 10. The Returned of the Repressed: Survival after the Gulag Nanci Adler 11. Success Stories from the Margins: Soviet Women's Autobiographical Sketches from the Late Soviet Period Marianne Liljestrom 12. Epilogue Researching with Interview Sources on Soviet Russia