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Author Markowitz, Fran.

Title Coming of age in post-Soviet Russia / Fran Markowitz.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.2350947 M342c    ---  Available
Description xvii, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Introduction -- Tales of two transitions -- In the field of youth research -- pt. 2. Tracing the changes; or, what changes? -- Reconstructing Soviet childhood -- Glasnost, perestroika, and taking off the tie -- High school in the Russian Federation -- Other options : class actions and ethnic articulations -- pt. 3. Teenagers in post-Soviet Russia -- Leisure : sex, drugs, and rock and roll -- The meanings of being Russian -- Doing identity : politics, gender, and religion -- What teenagers want from life, and how to get it -- pt. 4. Conclusions, tentative or otherwise -- Cultural instability and adolescence -- References cited -- Index.
Subject Teenagers -- Russia (Federation) -- Attitudes.
ISBN 0252068645 (pbk.)
0252025431 (cl. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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