The Thaw Generation :Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era - Russian and East European Studies
The Thaw Generation :Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era - Russian and East European Studies
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Published:
12 October, 1993
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Description
The Thaw Generation offers an insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement--the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. Fired from their jobs, hunted by the KGB, \u201ctried,\u201d and imprisoned, Alexeyeva and other activists including Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov, Yuli Daniel, and Andrei Sinyavsky, through their dedication and their personal and professional sacrifices, focused international attention on the issue of human rights in the USSR.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780822959113 |
| ISBN10 | 0822959119 |
| Number Of Pages | 352 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A luminous, inspirational, autobiographical narrative.
* Publishers Weekly *A deeply personal chronicle that offers a close and often chilling view of the Soviet dissident movement from Stalin's death in 1953 through the ascent of Gorbachev.
* Kirkus *[Alexeyeva] offers personal testimony, modest, precise, without rhetoric of any kind. Schooled under Stalinism, she gives us a memoir that becomes a portrait of her generation, and the handful of people in it who constituted the dissident movement.
* Times Literary Supplement *Though the dissident movement was all but destroyed by the early '80s, Alexeyeva convincingly argues its importance in making today's reforms possible.
* Los Angeles Time Book Review *The Thaw Generation does admirably what it seeks to do. It documents the travails and achievements of Soviet dissidents during the oppressive decades of the 1960s and 1970s and the early years of the 1980s.
* East/West Education *Author's Bio
Ludmilla Alexeyeva is an advisor to the AFL-CIO, spending three months of each year in Russia.