Please share your memories of Khrushchev era

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

The RAILS Project (Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series) is developing a series of lessons on Nikita Khrushchev.  To that end we invite  SEELANGers who lived in the USSR during the Khrushchev era (and their friends or family members) to consider the  question below and share their recollections with us.  We will incorporate some of the responses, with appropriate  acknowledgments, of course, into our Khrushchev lessons.  Because these lessons are focused on language acquisition, we can only consider responses in Russian. 

The question for response is here, in English and in Russian:

Nikita Khrushchev is a controversial figure in Russian and Soviet history. If you can, please tell us a story from your own life experiences related to Khrushchev's policies (e.g., Destalinization, planting of corn, cultivation of the virgin lands, etc.), to important events of his time as the leader of the Soviet Union (e.g., the space race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and so forth), or to you and your family's perception of Khrushchev in the period 1956-1964.

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Please send your responses to me at brifkin at temple.edu by March 1, 2006:  texts can be as short as a paragraph or two - we're not looking for book-length manuscripts, of course!.  (I'm sorry, but there is no budget to pay for shared reminiscences.  We will certainly acknowledge every text we receive.)

For more information about the RAILS project, see http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/rails or contact my colleague, Project Manager Dianna Murphy, at diannamurphy at wisc.edu.  

With thanks,

Ben Rifkin

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Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Russian and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
1206 Anderson Hall, 1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA  19122 USA
(215) 204-1816
brifkin at temple.edu

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