The 60s. The World of the Soviet Man

This audiobook is devoted to the 60s era, which, according to the authors, Peter Weill and Alexander Genis, began in 1961 with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party, which adopted the program for building communism, and ended in 1968 with the occupation of Czechoslovakia, perceived in the USSR as the final collapse of all hopes. These chronological boundaries make it possible to single out a special period in Soviet history—a period that is eclectic, contradictory, and paradoxical, yet unified by many common trends. In those years, Soviet civilization developed into its most characteristic model, and the specificity of the Soviet person was expressed in the fullest, brightest way. Major changes in the ideology of Soviet society also took place in those pivotal years.

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