Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation

by Donald J. Raleigh

Book Overview

Donald Raleigh's Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the fascinating life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.

For this book, Raleigh has interviewed sixty 1967 graduates of two "magnet" secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English, one in Moscow and one in provincial Saratov. Part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199311234
• ISBN13: 9780199311231
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"