Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives
Indiana University Press | May 12, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0253347254 | 320 pages | PDF | 2.95 MB
Indiana University Press | May 12, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0253347254 | 320 pages | PDF | 2.95 MB
Russia’s Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union’s return to "normality" following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first-graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly distanced itself from the excesses of Stalinism. Reaching middle age during the Gorbachev Revolution, they negotiated the transition to a Russian-style market economy and remain active, productive members of society in Russia and the diaspora.