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Who defeated the USSR: the hippies or the yuppies? The 1970s generation between freedom and consumption

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Who defeated the USSR: the hippies or the yuppies? The 1970s generation between freedom and consumption
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This book, a sequel to Dmitry Travin's bestseller "How We Lived in the USSR," chronicles the formation of the "seventies" generation. Its protagonists are those who entered active, conscious life during the "long seventies," which lasted from the end of Khrushchev's thaw to the beginning of Gorbachev's perestroika. Why did people born in the 1950s and 1960s turn out the way they did? How did they differ from other Soviet generations? What did freedom mean to the seventies generation? How did it mesh with the generation's focus on the benefits of consumer culture and conformism in personal strategies under the challenges of the era of stagnation? Dmitry Travin offers original answers to these questions, drawing on a series of interviews with prominent figures of the era, as well as diaries, memoirs, and research. Dmitry Travin, PhD in Economics, is a specialist in economic history and historical sociology. From 2008 to 2024, he was the academic director of the Center for Modernization Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg.
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