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Reddit mentions of A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union
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We found 5 Reddit mentions of A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. Here are the top ones.
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This article's title is bullshit. Its not like everyone in Russia before Yeltsin just walked around sad all the time. I mean they did, but that more a factor of Russian fatalism and ennui than politics. That hasn't changed and never will.
If you want to see some really beautiful photos from the Soviet Era, check out A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union. Great pictures.
http://www.amazon.com/A-Day-Life-Soviet-Union/dp/0002179695
When I was in school in the 1980s there were a few kids who immigrated here from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Russia.
Fellow students were able to ask questions directly to new immigrants so there weren't lots of ridiculous rumors about the Eastern Bloc. Something that sticks in my mind - being fascinated that there was a childrens show on at night at bedtime. A friend said that was something she missed even though she was already older than the target age.
When I was in graduate school in the 90s I had a Russian roommate. It was interesting to hear her take on America during the Cold War.
She had stories of being a kid (her family was fairly high ranking in Leningrad) and there being collections of clothes and school supplies for the 'poor starving children of America').
She asked if the same kind of thing happened in America... nope. Honestly, we didn't think much about the people of Russia as much as the government.
I remember having the coffee table book A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union and being fascinated by the beautiful images.
Go with Russian! After my boyfriend borrowed me this book, I was interested in learning Russian language as a means of understanding their culture. Certainly, state borders have changed a lot since this book was published, but Russia's cultural impact is still very pervasive. Personally, I find it immensely satisfying when learning a language helps to understand your own native language more, and I feel that it's more likely that Russian will have influenced the English language than Korean (owing to our longer relationship with the former).
This is a fantastic photo book showing daily Soviet life in the eighties: http://www.amazon.com/A-Day-Life-Soviet-Union/dp/0002179695
I was going to be leading a student travel group to the Soviet Union in 1991, so a friend bought me A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union: a photo essay book of photographs taken across the far-flung nation all on the same day.
Because of political unrest, the university forced us to cancel the trip. If we'd gone, we would have been in Moscow when the tanks came into Red Square...