Russia's Sputnik Generation: Soviet Baby Boomers Talk about Their LivesRussia's Sputnik Generation presents the life stories of eight 1967 graduates of School No. 42 in the Russian city of Saratov. Born in 1949 50, these four men and four women belong to the first generation conceived during the Soviet Union's return to normality following World War II. Well educated, articulate, and loosely networked even today, they were first graders the year the USSR launched Sputnik, and grew up in a country that increasingly