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mythologies of everyday life in Russia
By Boym, Svetlana
- ISBN
- 978-0-67414-625-9
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 1994
Visitors and outsiders have long lamented that the real lives of Soviet citizens were hidden behind a veil of official rhetoric. The private self was kept separate from the public self as a sort of defensive or coping mechanism. Boym (humanities, Harvard), who was raised in Leningrad but has liv...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
