On Living Through Soviet Russia

<p>For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia talking about the past either political or personal became dangerous. The new policy of <em>glasnost</em> at the end of the 1980s resulted in a flood of reminiscence almost nightly on television and more formally collected by new Russian oral history groups and western researchers. This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.</p>