Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era

Dina Fainberg is assistant professor of East European studies at the University of Amsterdam.Artemy M. Kalinovsky is assistant professor of East European studies at the University of Amsterdam.

• Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents, Artemy M. Kalinovsky and Dina FainbergPart I: Ideology between Public and Private SpheresChapter 1: Consumers as Citizens: Revisiting the Question of Public Disengagement in the Brezhnev era, Natalya ChernyshovaChapter 2: The Life and Death of Brezhnev’s Thaw: Changing Values in Soviet Journalism after Khrushchev, 1964–1968, Simon HuxtableChapter 3: People on the Move during the “Era of Stagnation”: The Rural Exodus in the RSFSR during the 1960s–80s, Lewis H. SiegelbaumChapter 4: Brezhnev’s “Little Freedoms”: Tourism, Individuality, and Mobility in the Late Soviet Period, Christian NoackChapter 5: Everything Was over before It Was No More: Decaying Civilization in Late Stagnation Cinema, Andrey ShcherbenokPart II: The Soviet Union and the West: Exchange, Imagination, and CompetitionChapter 6: Stagnation or Not? The Brezhnev leadership and the East-West Interaction, Sari Autio-SarasmoChapter 7: Stagnant Science? The Planning and Coordination of Bi

This is a welcome addition to the body of literature reexamining the Brezhnev era. It portrays an engaged citizenry in dialog with public institutions and a state still capable of innovation from science to foreign affairs.