Reviews for Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies)

The average rating for Thaw Generation: Coming of Age in the Post-Stalin Era (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies) based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-08-24 00:00:00 Jean Remi Rouch I have a very lengthy review of this book. However, it is too long for GR and I don't feel like cutting it down. For anyone interested in seeing it just message me. I will, for the review here, include the conclusion of my review: Alexeyeva first published her memoirs in 1990 - a watershed year in the Soviet world. Only two years later, it was necessary for her to write a new preface to her book that set it into a new context of the fall of the Soviet Union. It is clear that she and others like her had a large influence on the hearts and minds of the people who heard what they had to say. She does not spare necessary details, nor indulge in needless repetition - her story covers an entire generation, and captures the spirit and essence of the kompaniya, the dissidents and intelligentsia completely. A detailed history of the period might provide more information on political leaders, foreign policy, domestic policy and legal trials, but without memoirs such as The Thaw Generation, there is no clear social context in which to place them. With this book, Ludmilla Alexeyeva not only has recorded her remarkable life, but has recorded the social context necessary to understand this time in Soviet and Russian history.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-04 00:00:00 Cindy Biggers It gives a very intense view into the life of dissidents in the USSR as well as into the history of the state and cold war itself. Her style of writing also is great to read.