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“... Iwas​ a first year PhD student when I went to the Crimea 15 years ago. I was enrolled at Simferopol State University to study Russian as a Foreign Language. There were five of us and we probably accounted for the better part of the university’s funding. I moved into the university’s ‘bloc’ for foreign students. Every morning, I heated five pans of water on the gas stove of the shared kitchen and used a sixth to mix hot and cold water and then pour it over my head ...”

“... to watch Hollywood films and buy foreign records.After the war, they didn’t want to stop. As Juliane Fürst put it in Stalin’s Last Generation,*Postwar youth danced. At any occasion and in any place, young people set up makeshift dancefloors and spent their time revolving to the tune of waltzes, foxtrots and tangos … In the destroyed city of ...”

“... successful’ with the public.A different though not necessarily contradictory picture comes from Juliane Fürst’s Stalin’s Last Generation, which deals with the cohort that was too young to fight in the war but grew up in its shadow in the 1940s and early 1950s. She shows this cohort – or at least the urban and metropolitan part of it that is her ...”