On Living Through Soviet Russia

Daniel Bertaux is Directeur de Recherches at the Centre d’Etudes des Mouvements Sociaux, Paris. For several years after 1991 he organised the collection of case histories of families in Russia in order to document what ordinary Russians had been through during seventy years of state ‘socialism’.,
Paul Thompson is Research Professor in Sociology at the University of Essex, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Community Studies, London. He is FounderEditor of Oral History and Founder of the National Life Story Collection at the British Library, London.,
Anna Rotkirch is a sociologist at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has specialised in comparative research on families and sexuality, autobiographical research and Russian studies.