Books by Leo Lowenthal

Living Through the Soviet System analyzes, through personal accounts, how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level.

Analyzing how Russian society operated on a day-to-day level, this book contrasts the integration of different social groups: the descendents of the pre-revolutionary upper classes, the industrial working class, or the ethnically marginalized Russian Jews. It examines in turn the implications of relationships, and the suppression of religion.

This volume's predominant theme is bourgeois mentality and its historical development. The works of Lope de Vega, Calderon, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, among others, are analysed within the historical framework of the decline of feudalism and the rise of the absolute regimes.