Stagnation, n.: lack of change. Life in the USSR between late 1960s and early 1980s was the same day in and day out: same head of state, same TV shows, same food without brand names, same singers on the radio.
Until suddenly, one day, it wasn't.
One eventful middle-class childhood behind the Iron Curtain in Soviet Leningrad. A mix of a fun memoir and social history of the years preceding the collapse of the USSR. (The book is finished.)