Books on living through the end of the USSR?
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Are there any books which deal with the collapse of the Soviet system from the POV of ordinary civilians?
I was chatting to a guy who was growing up in a satellite state at the time and he basically said that all of the history he had learned was bulls
t overnight, then there was a couple of years of different history before it changed again. I'm too young to really remember it well, but I remember the news articles of shops with almost nothing for sale and can imagine the unemployment and organized crime that followed must have been a massive blow to the psyche of people who had grown up with a strong state.
I was chatting to a guy who was growing up in a satellite state at the time and he basically said that all of the history he had learned was bulls
t overnight, then there was a couple of years of different history before it changed again. I'm too young to really remember it well, but I remember the news articles of shops with almost nothing for sale and can imagine the unemployment and organized crime that followed must have been a massive blow to the psyche of people who had grown up with a strong state.https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survived-Communism-Ev... is worth finding, it’s not as Feminist as reviews or the synopsis make out. I bought it in Croatia to read whilst I was there but only read it years later
And the recent Sergio Plokhy Chernobyl book is rich in detail and also covers some of what you’re after.
And the recent Sergio Plokhy Chernobyl book is rich in detail and also covers some of what you’re after.
It's not quite on this topic but Red Plenty is a very interesting read.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/08/red-...
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