{"product_id":"cold-war-casual-9781641800501","title":"Cold War Casual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCold War Casual \u003c\/em\u003eis a collection of transcribed oral testimony and interviews translated from Russian into English and from English into Russian that delve into the effect of the events and the government propaganda of the Cold War era on regular citizens of countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interviews were conducted in the native languages of the respondents in a casual, friendly format to record the subjective evaluations of the Cold War period in an attempt to establish whether, and how, the lived experiences and memories of the respondents influenced their sense of national pride, instilled a fear of war or the enemy, invited cultural openness or isolation and participated in forming personal long-term ideological stances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e«Простая холодная война  -- это сборник транскриптов устных свидетельств и неформальных интервью, взятых у рядовых граждан государств с обеих сторон «железного занавеса  и затем переведённых с русского на английский и с английского на русский. В книге рассматривается влияние событий и государственной пропаганды эпохи холодной войны на жизнь и мировоззрение респондентов по их личным субъективным оценкам. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrushelnitskaya, Anna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Anna Vladimirovna Krushelnitskaya was born in 1975 in a small town in the Soviet Far East. She grew up in the Siberian city of Chita, where she graduated from the Trans-Baikal State University with a degree in Foreign Language Education. Anna Vladimirovna taught college in Russia before moving to the US in 2004. In the US, she lost her patronymic and gained experience working as a teacher, court interpreter, Red Cross instructor, and garden hand. Anna lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and three children. She enjoys freelance writing, doing literary translation, and blogging on Soviet topics.","brand":"Front Edge Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50368624034066,"sku":"9781641800501","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_961411b2-beaa-49f5-b559-a3230f64f990.jpg?v=1728510918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cold-war-casual-9781641800501","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}