27/02/2017 · Everyday Life in the Soviet Union. This is the second of three articles by Anna Malyukova about her memories of the Soviet Union, where she grew up and lived before its collapse. Anna’s account is not a detached political analysis of the situation in the former Soviet Union but rather a story of her personal experiences, which illustrate the deep ...

Daily life and social customs. During the Soviet era most customs and traditions of Russia’s imperial past were suppressed, and life was strictly controlled and regulated by the state through its vast intelligence network. Beginning in the 1980s, Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms eased political and social restrictions, and common traditions and ...

25/05/2015 · • Russia’s military forces were benefiting from her industrial growth. • there was a stable government under Stalin. • people had access to much better medical care some 10 years before the National Health Service was introduced in GB.

30/11/2017 · In 1976 only two thirds of Soviet families had a refrigerator—the USA hit two thirds in the early 1930s. Soviet families had to wait years to get one, and when they finally got a postcard giving notice they could buy one, they had a fixed one hour slot during which they could pick it up. They lost their chance if they did not arrive in time.

Byt(everyday life) is a “swamp,” according to one contemporary Russian view, keeping people busy in “a set of ossified daily routines” that fail to provide meaning to life.¹ It was this byt that wrecked the poet Mayakovsky, or so he claimed in a farewell poem when he killed himself in …

03/06/2016 · Many people in Russia say these days that they miss the times of the Soviet Union, that life in the USSR was great, all food products were high quality products and so on and so forth. Interestingly, such remarks can most often be heard from young people, who were not even born in the USSR.

11/06/2012 · Let’s check out how Western photographers saw life of a Soviet child. Yasuhiko Miyajima took photos of everyday life of a Moscow girl Katya in 1987 within the framework of the project “Children of the World”. Two years later Americans republished the Japanese book and added comments concerning the life in the country.