Author: Boris Andreevich GrushinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leisure
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Problems of Free Time in the USSR
Author: Boris Andreevich GrushinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leisure
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Problems of Free Time in the USSR
Author: B. GrušinProblems of Communism
Author: Social Indicators
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Introductory material and statistical tables on 11 topics, e.g., public safety, social participation, and use of leisure time. Appendixes include sources used and glossary. Index.
Work and Leisure in the Soviet Union
Author: Jiri ZuzanekPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Red Plenty
Author: Francis SpuffordPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
"Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Soviet Life
Author: The Rhythm Of Everyday Life
Author: John RobinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000305155
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This book describes an important advance in international social science research—the first cooperative survey of representative samples of the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It identifies changes in the time-use patterns of both cities during the last two decades.
The Many Faces of Socialism
Author: Paul HollanderPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412828024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Dealing with topics and perspectives generally neglected by American sociologists, Hollander focuses on the nature of socialism and the reasons for Marxism's appeal among Western intellectuals. In his new introduction to updated essays, never before published in book form, he also addresses issues of enduring interest in both socialist and pluralistic societies. These include relationships between the private and the public, techniques of social and political control, the timeless tension between professed value and observed behavior, and the way systems struggle for a sense of purpose in the contemporary world.
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