Living Through the Soviet System

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Living Through the Soviet System analyes, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level. It contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendents of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the new industrial working class, or the ethnically marginalied Russian Jews. It examines in turn the implications of family relationships, working mothers, absent fathers and caretaking grandmothers, patterns of eating together, and of housing, the secrecy of sex, the suppression of religion, and the small freedoms of growing vegetables on weekends on a dacha plot.