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

[trubikhina at AOL.COM]

 I don't know if the English translation of this exists. This is a great source on Russian mass culture, however (and it extends beyond the sixties): Alexander Genis and Petr Vail', "60-e. Mir sovetskogo cheloveka" (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1988). 
Here's also an article in English: 
Harris, Steven E. (Steven Emmett)
"In Search of "Ordinary" Russia: Everyday Life in the NEP, the Thaw, and the Communal Apartment"
in "Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History" - Volume 6, Number 3, Summer 2005, pp. 583-614



 Julia


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Hunter College, CUNY



 


 

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Dear Rachel,

There is a great scene about everyone's obsession with a stapler in the 
beginning of Bitov's "Bezdel'nik." An English translation as "The Idler" exists 
somewhere. 

Yuri Shevchuk's (DDT) song "Khipany" has a lot of English influenced slang in it 
and is a pretty fun song. 

I haven't watched it in a long time so my memory is fuzzy, but Gorod Zero should 
be good with all of its early rock and roll thematics. Okno v Parizh would be 
good, but it's just outside of the period you are interested in.

Tony

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