The Russians /Hedrick Smith.
Smith, Hedrick,
The Russians /Hedrick Smith. - New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, (c)1976. - xi, 527 pages ; 24 cm.
TABLE OF ColoradoNTENTS -- The people -- The privileged class: dachas and zils -- Consumers: the art of queuing -- Corruption: living na levo -- Private life: Russians as people -- Women: liberated but not emancipated -- Children: between parent and teacher -- Youth: rock without roll -- The system -- Rural life: why they won't stay down on the farm -- Industrial life: Skoro Budnt: it'll be here soon -- Leaders and led: nostalgia for a strong boss -- The party: communist rituals and communist jokes -- Patriotism: world war II was only yesterday -- Siberia: high rises on the permafrost -- Information: white tass and letters to the editor -- Issues -- Culture: cat and mouse -- Intellectual life: the archipelago of private culture -- Religion: Solzhenitsyn and the Russianness of Russia -- Dissent: the modern technology of repression -- The outside world: province of the privileged and the pariahs -- Convergence: are they becoming more like us?
75038781 //r924
DK276 / .R877 1976 DK276
The Russians /Hedrick Smith. - New York : Quadrangle/New York Times Book Company, (c)1976. - xi, 527 pages ; 24 cm.
TABLE OF ColoradoNTENTS -- The people -- The privileged class: dachas and zils -- Consumers: the art of queuing -- Corruption: living na levo -- Private life: Russians as people -- Women: liberated but not emancipated -- Children: between parent and teacher -- Youth: rock without roll -- The system -- Rural life: why they won't stay down on the farm -- Industrial life: Skoro Budnt: it'll be here soon -- Leaders and led: nostalgia for a strong boss -- The party: communist rituals and communist jokes -- Patriotism: world war II was only yesterday -- Siberia: high rises on the permafrost -- Information: white tass and letters to the editor -- Issues -- Culture: cat and mouse -- Intellectual life: the archipelago of private culture -- Religion: Solzhenitsyn and the Russianness of Russia -- Dissent: the modern technology of repression -- The outside world: province of the privileged and the pariahs -- Convergence: are they becoming more like us?
75038781 //r924
DK276 / .R877 1976 DK276