Primary Source on Soviet interest in western goods/culture 50s-70s

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Dear Rachel,

Archived Time magazines (easily found online) have fantastic articles
about the US Fair in Moscow (1959) which showcased American products,
including Pepsi, and model kitchens to the Soviets.  I'm sure with minimal
effort you could find Russian coverage of the event.

Also, you might consider Shaknazarov's 2008 film _Vanished Empire_,
although it is a nostalgic and glorified rendering of the early 1970s. 
Here's a review of the film by Kaganovsky:
http://www.kinokultura.com/2008/22r-vanished.shtml

Best,
Dawn Seckler

Professor Dawn Seckler
Russian Department
Sewanee: The University of the South
931-598-1254
dseckler at sewanee.edu

> Dear List Members,
>
> I'm going to be teaching an introductory undergraduate course on
> "Russian civilization" in the winter, which will be mostly based on
> primary source material (in English, including fiction). I'm looking
> for a text to assign about Soviet interest in Western (American/
> European) popular culture/and or goods in the Khrushchev or Brezhnev
> period. I was thinking for instance of Aksenov's Starry Ticket, but
> it's too long and the translation strikes me as stilted. Ideally I'd
> like to find something under 100-150 pages. It could be a novella,
> diary, memoir, archival document, film, anything really.
>
> Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rachel Applebaum
> PhD Candidate, Russian and East European History
> University of Chicago
>
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