Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: Ideology and Exchange

Author:   Dina Fainberg ,  Artemy M. Kalinovsky ,  Sari Autio-Sarasmo ,  Natalya Chernyshova
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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Pages:   220
Publication Date:   27 April 2016
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Dina Fainberg ,  Artemy M. Kalinovsky ,  Sari Autio-Sarasmo ,  Natalya Chernyshova
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.513kg
ISBN:  

9781498529938


ISBN 10:   1498529933
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   27 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Fürst 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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This is a welcome addition to the body of literature reexamining the Brezhnev era. It portrays an engaged citizenry in dialog with public institutions, primarily in the role of consumers, and a state still capable of innovation from science to foreign affairs. -- Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University


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Dina Fainberg is assistant professor of East European studies at the University of Amsterdam. Artemy M. Kalinovsky is assistant professor of East European studies at the University of Amsterdam.

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