Russia's Sputnik generation: Soviet baby boomers talk about their lives

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sasha the Muscovite: Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Konstantinov 2. Back then really wanted to join the party: Natalia Valentinovna Altukhova (maiden name Pronina) 3. We grew up in a normal time: Natalia P. 4. Our entire generation . . . welcomed perestroika: Arkadii Olegovich Darchenko 5. I saw the life of my country, and thereby my own, from a variety of perspectives: Natalia Aleksandrovna Belovolova (maiden name Ianichkina) 6. It's very hard to be a woman in our country: Olga Vladimirovna Kamaiurova 7. I came to understand things, but only gradually: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Trubnikov 8. People have lost a great deal in terms of their confidence in tomorrow: Gennadii Viktorovich Ivanov Selected Bibliography Index