Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their Lives

Book Overview

Russia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949/50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to "normality" following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first-graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025321842X
• ISBN13: 9780253218421
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher