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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.In candid interviews with Donald J. Raleigh, these Soviet "baby boomers" talk about the historical times in which they grew up, but also about their everyday experiences—their family backgrounds; childhood pastimes; favorite books, movies, and music; and influential people in their lives. These personal testimonies shed valuable light on Soviet childhood and adolescence, on the reasons and course of perestroika, and on the wrenching transition that has taken place since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Donald J. Raleigh is Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author, editor, or translator of numerous books, most recently Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917–1922.
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "Sasha the Muscovite": Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konstantinov2. "Back then I really wanted to join the party": Natalia Valentinovna Altukhova (maiden name Pronina)3. "We grew up in a normal time": Natalia P.4. "Our entire generation . . . welcomed perestroika": Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko5. "I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives": Natalia Aleksandrovna Belovolova (maiden name Ianichkina)6. "It's very hard to be a woman in our country": Olga Vladimirovna Kamaiurova7. "I came to understand things, but only gradually": Aleksandr Vladimirovich Trubnikov8. "People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow": Gennadii Viktorovich IvanovSelected BibliographyIndex