Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985

Neringa Klumbyte is an assistant professor at Miami University (Ohio). Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is an associate professor of political science and international studies at Miami University (Ohio).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Was Late Socialism?
By Neringa Klumbyte and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
1. Plutonium Enriched: Making Bombs and Middle-Classes
By Kate Brown
2. A Middle Class without Capitalism? Socialist Ideology and Post-Collectivist Discourse in the Late Soviet Era
By Anna Paretskaya
3. “Cultural Wars” in the Closed City of Soviet Ukraine, 1959–82
By Sergei I. Zhuk
4. Soviet Ethical Citizenship: Morality, the State, and Laughter in Late Soviet Lithuania
By Neringa Klumbyte
5. Pluralizing Practices in Late-Socialist Moscow: Russian Alternative Practitioners Reclaim and Redefine Individualism
By Larisa Honey
6. Football in the Era of “Changing Stagnation”: The Case of Spartak Moscow
By Robert Edelman
7. Beyond the Genres of Stagnation: Reading the Allure of I. Grekova’s The Hotel Manager
By Benjamin M. Sutcliffe
8. Raped with Politburon: Bawdy Humor and Disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky’s Prose
By Olga Livshin
Afterword: Postcard from Berlin: Rethinking the Juncture of Late Socialism and Late Liberalism in Europe
By Dominic Boyer
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index