Soviet Baby Boomers traces the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transformation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's first post-World War II, Cold War generation.[...]
Explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the 20th Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the "period of stagnation" under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material[...]