Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось. Последнее советское поколение

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"This is an updated version of the book that was originally published in English (Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation), but which was re-written now in Russian by the author himself, and substantially revised and expanded.
The book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation. For these people the collapse of the Soviet system in the early 1990s came as something quite unexpected and yet not quite surprising. Starting with the paradox in mind, the book investigates the period of thirty years before the collapse, focusing on the major transformations of the Soviet system at the level of discourse, ideology, language, and ritual. Alexei Yurchak traces the emergence of multiple unanticipated meanings, communities, relations, and forms of life that this transformation subsequently enabled. His historical, anthropological, and linguistic analysis draws on rich ethnographic material from late-socialist and the post-Soviet periods. The model of Soviet socialism that emerges provides an alternative to binary accounts that describe that system as a dichotomy of official culture and unofficial culture, the state and the people, public self and private self, truth and lie--and ignore the crucial fact that, for many Soviet citizens, the fundamental values, ideals, and realities of socialism were genuinely important, although they routinely transgressed and reinterpreted the norms and rules of the socialist state."