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  3. Politics, Work, and Daily Life in the USSR
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2010
Print publication year:
1987
Online ISBN:
9780511664182
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511664182
Subjects:
Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
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Book description

Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is designed to illustrate how the Soviet social system really works and how the Soviet people cope with it. This study is based on the first comprehensive survey of life in the USSR since the Harvard Project over thiry-three years ago. The essays contained analyze the variations in attitude and behaviour reflected in the findings of the Soviet Interview Project, a five-year investigation of contemporary daily life in the USSR. The survey involved interviewing thousands of recent emigrants from the USSR to the United States as a means of learning about their former day-to-day lives. Some aspects of this survey dealt with areas the Soviets themselves had never investigated, so the data were not, and indeed still are not, available even in unpublished Soviet sources. This study of a large volume of firsthand observations is extremely valuable to anyone interested in the inner workings and behavioural dynamics of the contemporary Soviet social system.

Reviews

‘Using the rigorous methods of social science, James Millar and his colleagues have tapped into a unique source - a ‘living archive’ of information on contemporary Soviet society. Their book provides priceless insights on the reality with which Gorbachev must contend.’

S. Frederick Starr - president, Oberlin College

‘Politics, work, and daily life in the USSR is an important addition to our understanding of contemporary attitudes and behaviours of Soviet citizens. The authors have carried off a tour de force in exploiting modern social survey and statistical analytical techniques. The book will become a solid and permanent part of the Soviet studies literature.’

Robert Campbell - Indiana University

‘Professor Millar and his colleagues have rendered the field of Soviet studies a signal service by systematically investigating the attitudes, values, and life histories of a large sample of ‘Third Wave’ émigrés. Their findings help to clarify some of the most hotly disputed analytical issues in the field. All of the contributions to this volume will repay careful reading, and some of them will undoubtedly become classics in the field.’

Jeremy R. Azrael Source: The RAND Corporation

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