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Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era, ideology and exchange, edited by Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky

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Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era, ideology and exchange, edited by Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era

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electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

946359641

Responsibility statement

edited by Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky

Series statement

Ebsco eBook Collection

Sub title

ideology and exchange

Summary

This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state's attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Stagnation and its discontents / Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Dina Fainberg -- Part I. Ideology between public and private spheres -- Chapter One: Consumers as Citizens -- Chapter Two: The Life and Death of Brezhnev's Thaw -- Chapter Three: People on the Move during the "Era of Stagnation" -- Chapter Four: Brezhnev's "Little Freedoms" -- Chapter Five: Everything Was Over before It Was No More -- Part 2: The Soviet Union and the West -- Chapter Six: Stagnation or Not? -- Chapter Seven: Stagnant Science? -- Chapter Eight: If You're Going to Moscow, Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair (and Bring a Bottle of Port Wine in Your Pocket) -- Chapter Nine: Norton Dodge in Lianozovo -- Chapter Ten: Changing Dynamics -- Bibliography -- Index

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