Normal People
Sheila Fitzpatrick: SovietSpeak, 25 May 2006
Everything Was For Ever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation
by Alexei Yurchak.
Princeton, 331 pp., £15.95, December 2005,0 691 12117 6 Show More
by Alexei Yurchak.
Princeton, 331 pp., £15.95, December 2005,
“... saw the government’s basic concern as ‘caring for people, free hospitals, good education’. Mikhail, similarly, ‘had always thought’ that the ‘actual idea’ of socialism was ‘profoundly correct and that this was how things should be … I had realised,’ he said, ‘that there were distortions … But I thought that if we managed to get rid of ... ”