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This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state's attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.
Contents
Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Dina Fainberg
Part I: Ideology between Public and Private Spheres
Chapter 1: Consumers as Citizens: Revisiting the Question of Public Disengagement in the Brezhnev era, Natalya Chernyshova
Chapter 2: The Life and Death of Brezhnev's Thaw: Changing Values in Soviet Journalism after Khrushchev, 1964-1968, Simon Huxtable
Chapter 3: People on the Move during the "Era of Stagnation": The Rural Exodus in the RSFSR during the 1960s-80s, Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Chapter 4: Brezhnev's "Little Freedoms": Tourism, Individuality, and Mobility in the Late Soviet Period, Christian Noack
Chapter 5: Everything Was over before It Was No More: Decaying Civilization in Late Stagnation Cinema, Andrey Shcherbenok
Part II: The Soviet Union and the West: Exchange, Imagination, and Competition
Chapter 6: Stagnation or Not? The Brezhnev leadership and the East-West Interaction, Sari Autio-Sarasmo
Chapter 7: Stagnant Science? The Planning and Coordination of Bi
