POLITICS, WORK, AND DAILY LIFE IN THE USSR by James R. Millar (Editor) ( 9780521348904 )

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POLITICS, WORK, AND DAILY LIFE IN THE USSR
A SURVEY OF FORMER SOVIET CITIZENS

By:

James R. Millar (Editor)

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Paperback

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0521348900

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9780521348904

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 October, 1987

Pages:

440

Description:

This book illustrates how the Soviet social system works and how the Soviet people cope with it.

Synopsis:

Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary daily life in the USSR. The survey involved interviewing thousands of recent emigrants from the USSR to the United States as a means of learning about their former day-to-day lives. Some aspects of this survey dealt with areas the Soviets themselves had never investigated, so the data were not, and indeed still are not, available even in unpublished Soviet sources. This study of a large volume of firsthand observations is extremely valuable to anyone interested in the inner workings and behavioural dynamics of the contemporary Soviet social system.

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16 b/w illus. 101 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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