Rez. EG: V. Zubok: Zhivago's Children

22-Oct-2009
 

Externe Angebote zu diesem Beitrag Rezensiert für H-Soz-u-Kult von: Stephen Bittner, Sonoma State University sonoma.edu> One of the most striking characteristics of recent scholarship on postwar Soviet history is the prominence of generational tropes. Nearly two decades after the Soviet human-rights activist Ludmilla Alexeyeva coined the epithet “thaw generation” to describe friends and colleagues who were galvanized by Nikita Khrushchev’s reforms, scholars have proposed a number of alternate labels to underscore the important social and cultural changes that occurred in the Soviet Union after 1945: “Sputnik generation,” “Stalin’s last generation,” and “last Soviet generation,” among others.[1] Perhaps the most elegant contribution to this catalog of generational labels comes from Vladislav Zubok, who has titled his... [read full story]                    

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