Daily Life in the Soviet Union


Heavily biased piece of work, reads like anti-Soviet propaganda from an American point of view in the Cold War era. According to this book, nothing, nothing was ever good in the Soviet Union!!! Which is in ifself a lie by definition. Although the soviet regime had its many repressions, shortages, drawbacks, life in the Soviet Union was not all bad for all of the population. That is why many Russians still remember the Soviet period with warm feelings, still watch popular Soviet films (“Beware of the Car”, “A Diamond Arm”, “Office Romance”, “Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears”...), read books produced in Soviet times (“12 Chairs”, “Scarlet Sails”, “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends”, The Strugatsky Brothers' sci-fi books...) and listen to Soviet songs (“Million Roses”, “Moscow Nights”, “Kalinka”, “Katuysha”...). Those where never mentioned in the book. I’ve read many books in Daily Life Through History series, practically all the authors express their love and respect for their research period. Not the case with Katherine B. Eaton though. She must have regarded Soviet epoch with the same scorn as Fascist regime. The bottom line is, seek for objective analyses of Soviet life elsewhere.

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