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Author Hixson, Walter L.

Title Witness to disintegration : provincial life in the last year of the USSR / Walter L. Hixson.

Imprint Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1993.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  947.085 HIXSON    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 176 pages ; 23 cm
Summary Whether relating his experience of standing in bread lines in Kazan, a city once closed to Westerners, attending a Tatar wedding in a remote village, or delivering lectures to students and professors enthralled by the glitter of Western consumer culture, Hixson balances his respect for the people of the USSR with outrage at their appalling circumstances.
Contents Ch. 1. American Boy, American Joy -- Ch. 2. Disarray, Disillusion, and the Deficit -- Ch. 3. Breaking with Tania -- Ch. 4. The Rhythm of Provincial Life -- Ch. 5. White Russians, War Memorials, and Religious Revival -- Ch. 6. Winter of War and Reaction -- Ch. 7. Godfathers and Gopniki -- Ch. 8. Education in Decline -- Ch. 9. The Rebirth of Tatarstan -- Ch. 10. Men, Women, Sex, and the Family -- Ch. 11. The Long Road Home.
Subject Hixson, Walter L. -- Travel -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Description and travel.
Hixson, Walter L. (OCoLC)fst00251998
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Soviet Union. (OCoLC)fst01210281
Other Form: Online version: Hixson, Walter L. Witness to disintegration. Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1993 (OCoLC)607651708
Online version: Hixson, Walter L. Witness to disintegration. Hanover : University Press of New England, ©1993 (OCoLC)622819944
ISBN 0874516188
9780874516180
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