Synopsis: 'My Perestroika' tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain.
Visit the POV Community Network to browse films available for screenings. Five classmates go from living sheltered childhoods to experiencing the hopes of Gorbachevâ s reforms and the… Olga, like Lyuba, remembers "such wonderful times. Learn more. In 1988, while shopping at the old outlet mall on Northwest Expressway and Council Road in Oklahoma City, I had the good fortune of running into a group of college students from the Soviet Union. GRADE LEVELS 9-12. Ms. Meyerson and her husband, Borya, who also teaches history at the school, are the most prominent of the five Muscovites, four of whom were classmates, whose lives are profiled in the film. Reports of social problems in the United States only reinforced her certainty that she was lucky to live in a nation promoted as “the country of happy childhood.”. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Use one of the film’s accompanying resources to learn about the issues and get involved. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide.
Their memories and opinions sometimes complement each other and sometimes contradict each other, but together they paint a complex picture of the challenges, dreams, and disillusionment of this generation in Moscow today.
Taglines He grew up in an intellectual Jewish family. At first glance, in today’s Russia, everything is different from the lives they would have lived in the USSR. “My Perestroika” gives you a privileged sense of learning the history of a place not from a book but from the people who lived it. "How can you play music just for the money? As we are drawn into the fabric of their everyday lives, we hear stories of two very different Soviet childhoods: Lyuba was a conformist who would salute the TV when the Soviet hymn played, while Borya, living with the consequences of being Jewish, preferred to subvert the system whenever possible. | It needed to be destroyed, and thank God it was," says Borya. . Living with his wife and children in a luxury condo, he is the only one of the group who moved out of his childhood home. As a teenager in the USSR, he and his friends were intent on subverting the system. “I can’t say I wanted to be like everybody else — I simply was like everybody else, completely satisfied with my beautiful Soviet reality,” says Lyuba Meyerson, a public school teacher in her 40s, recalling her childhood in Robin Hessman’s enthralling documentary “My Perestroika.”, Growing up in Moscow in the 1970s before the crumbling of the Soviet Union, Ms. Meyerson, who now teaches history at Moscow’s School No. Synopsis My VIP Account. . Borya and Lyuba are married and have a son, Mark. A Navajo coal miner struggles with his part in the destruction of a sacred mountain. With candor and humor, the punk rocker, single mother, entrepreneur and married teachers paint a picture of the challenges, dreams and disappointments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain. But she says she felt safe because most of the violence was directed by one faction against another.