Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era : ideology and exchange
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Reconsidering stagnation in the Brezhnev era : ideology and exchange
Lexington Books, c2016
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state's attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Dina Fainberg
Part I: Ideology between Public and Private Spheres
Chapter 1: Consumers as Citizens: Revisiting the Question of Public Disengagement in the Brezhnev era, Natalya Chernyshova
Chapter 2: The Life and Death of Brezhnev's Thaw: Changing Values in Soviet Journalism after Khrushchev, 1964-1968, Simon Huxtable
Chapter 3: People on the Move during the "Era of Stagnation": The Rural Exodus in the RSFSR during the 1960s-80s, Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Chapter 4: Brezhnev's "Little Freedoms": Tourism, Individuality, and Mobility in the Late Soviet Period, Christian Noack
Chapter 5: Everything Was over before It Was No More: Decaying Civilization in Late Stagnation Cinema, Andrey Shcherbenok
Part II: The Soviet Union and the West: Exchange, Imagination, and Competition
Chapter 6: Stagnation or Not? The Brezhnev leadership and the East-West Interaction, Sari Autio-Sarasmo
Chapter 7: Stagnant Science? The Planning and Coordination of Biomedical Research in the Brezhnev Era, Anna Geltzer
Chapter 8: If You're Going to Moscow, Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair (and Bring a Bottle of Port Wine in Your Pocket) the Soviet Hippie "Sistema" and Its Life in, despite and With "Stagnation," Juliane Furst
Chapter 9: Norton Dodge in Lianozovo: Transnational Collaboration and the Making of the Unofficial Soviet Artist, Courtney Doucette
Chapter 10: Changing Dynamics: From International Exchanges to Transnational Musical Networks, Simo Mikkonen
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