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

[Valentino, Russell]

It's not any shorter, but Aksenov's In Search of Melancholy Baby in Michael Heim's translation is very good, though also out of print...

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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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