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The "Children of Perestroika" : Moscow Teenagers Talk About Their Lives and the title: Future : With a Postscript From the Summer of 1992 author: Adelman, Deborah. publisher: ME Sharpe, Inc. isbn10 | asin: 1563240017 print isbn13: 9781563240010 ebook isbn13: 9780585180441 language: English Teenagers--Russia (Federation)--Moscow-- Attitudes, Youth--Soviet Union--Social subject conditions, Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991, Soviet Union-- Politics and government--1985-1991. publication date: 1992 lcc: HQ799.S692M673 1992eb ddc: 305.2/35/0947 Teenagers--Russia (Federation)--Moscow-- Attitudes, Youth--Soviet Union--Social subject: conditions, Soviet Union--Social conditions--1970-1991, Soviet Union-- Politics and government--1985-1991. Page i The "Children of Perestroika" Page ii Page iii The "Children Of Perestroika" Moscow Teenagers Talk About Their Lives and the Future Deborah Adelman Narratives Translated by Deborah Adelman, Fay Greenbaum, and Sharon McKee With a Postscript from the Summer of 1992 M.E. SHARPE INC. ARMONK, N.Y. Page iv Jacket photo by Igor Gnevashev Photographs on the following pages were taken by Deborah Adelman: 2,48,82, 138,202,216 Photographs on the following pages were taken by Igor Gnevashev: ii, 110, 158, 176, 188 Photographs on the following pages were taken by Igor Timoshenko: 26, 228 Copyright © 1991, 1992 by Deborah Adelman All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Adelman, Deborah. The "Children of Perestroika": Moscow teenagers talk about their lives and the future / by Deborah Adelman. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56324-000-9 (cloth) ISBN 1-56324-001-7 (paperback) 1. TeenagersRussian S.F.S.R.MoscowAttitudes. 2. YouthSoviet UnionSocial conditions. 3. Soviet UnionSocial conditions1970- 4. Soviet UnionPolitics and government1985- I. Title. HQ799.S692M673 1991 305.2'35'0947dc20 90-25104 CIP Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. MV(c) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 MV(p) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Page v For Norm Adelman and in memory of Gert Adelman Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii The Teenagers xix Moscow Teenagers: Becoming the "Children of 3 Perestroika" The Workers' Intelligentsia 27 Tanya "Going Straight to Work Means Giving Up a Part of Your 47 Freedom" Olya A Country of Paradox 81 Lena "We Are Not Afraid of Anything" 109 Ilya A Patriotic Toughening Up 137 Maxim "It's Time We Really Build Socialism" 157 Yelena Becoming a Worker: Dima, Lyosha, Alexei 173 Bringing a Little Bread Back Home 177 Dima "If I Could Just Meet That One Person . . . " 187 Lyosha "All That Militarism Doesn't Attract Me" 203 Alexei "There's Nothing a Russian Woman Can't Do" 217 Natasha "The Ideals My Parents and Grandparents Grew Up With 229 Are Collapsing" Katya Postscript: Summer 1992 241 Glossary 244 Index 247 About The Author 256
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