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

[Robert Whittaker]

Hello, Rachel!Take a look at Nikolai Klimontovich's "Soft Jazz" - from his
"Road to Rome" in "Glas" #35.
Best, Robert


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R Whittaker
Lehman College, CUNY


On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rachel Applebaum <rapple at uchicago.edu>wrote:

> 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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