Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties

History Extra podcast

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History

4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Within just a few years of Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union had sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. An era of renewal and excitement beckoned. Speaking to Danny Bird, Robert Hornsby tells the story of how Soviet society embraced the 1960s – from new prospects for women, to faith in the energy of the young – before the era's promise was snuffed out by the Prague Spring of 1968. (Ad) Robert Hornsby is the author of The Soviet Sixties (Yale University Press, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soviet-Sixties-Robert-Hornsby/dp/0300250525/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.0	When it comes to the tumultuous timeline of the Soviet Union, the 1960s has often been overlooked, but argues Robert
1:07.7	Hornsby in today's episode. This was in fact a pivotal era that deserves greater attention.
1:14.7	As he explains to Danny Bird, from the launch of Sputnik and
1:18.5	Yuri Gagarin's pioneering orbit to greater opportunities for women and young people in the USSR, the Soviet
1:25.9	60s was a time of optimism, an optimism that came to an abrupt end in 1968.
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