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ConsumingRussia: PopularCulture, Sex and Society since Gorbachev. Edited by Adele Marie Barker. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 473 pp.

ConsumingRussia: PopularCulture, Sex and Society since Gorbachev. Edited by Adele Marie Barker.... welfare, and many others. If there is a problem in taking advantage o f this breadth, it is that some issues (health and education, for instance) are covered under several dif- ferent chapters, and there is no index or crosslisting to help the reader get from one to another. Also, the chapter headings and sub-headings give only a cursory description o f what might be found in each. These criticisms, though, amount to a backhanded compliment, since the complaint is that it is sometimes awkward to mine the consid- erable riches o f this collection. As the commentaries make clear, significant change is by no means concentrated in the period immediately before and after the Soviet collapse. Some o f the patterns o f . c h a n g e will be very familiar to students o f other industrial societies, and offer few surprises to specialists in Soviet/Russian affairs: the falling birth rates, rising divorce rates, increasing levels o f education, and other indices o f "modernity: ' Others, though, highlight the long-term trends that help explain the ultimate collapse o f the U S S R and the painful effort to establish a new order http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

ConsumingRussia: PopularCulture, Sex and Society since Gorbachev. Edited by Adele Marie Barker. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999. xiv, 473 pp.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 35 (3): 348 – Jan 1, 2001

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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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2210-2396
DOI
10.1163/221023901X00758
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welfare, and many others. If there is a problem in taking advantage o f this breadth, it is that some issues (health and education, for instance) are covered under several dif- ferent chapters, and there is no index or crosslisting to help the reader get from one to another. Also, the chapter headings and sub-headings give only a cursory description o f what might be found in each. These criticisms, though, amount to a backhanded compliment, since the complaint is that it is sometimes awkward to mine the consid- erable riches o f this collection. As the commentaries make clear, significant change is by no means concentrated in the period immediately before and after the Soviet collapse. Some o f the patterns o f . c h a n g e will be very familiar to students o f other industrial societies, and offer few surprises to specialists in Soviet/Russian affairs: the falling birth rates, rising divorce rates, increasing levels o f education, and other indices o f "modernity: ' Others, though, highlight the long-term trends that help explain the ultimate collapse o f the U S S R and the painful effort to establish a new order

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