Dropping out of Socialism

The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc
Herausgeber: Fürst, Juliane; McLellan, Josie

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Produktbeschreibung

This multidisciplinary collection of essays examines alternative subcultures in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the era of late socialism. The contributors analyze how these marginal communities rejected mainstream socialist culture, sought ideological and physical space from the state, and contributed to the demise of the USSR.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781498525169
• ISBN-10: 1498525164
• Artikelnr.: 54385059

Autorenporträt

Edited by Juliane Fürst and Josie McLellan - Contributions by Maria-Alina Asavei; Irina Costache; Madigan Andrea Fichter; Juliane Fürst; Irina Gordeeva; Joachim Häberlen; Jeff Hayton; Anna Kan; Ewgeniy Kasakow; Peter Angus Mitchell; Terje Toomistu; Patryk

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: To Drop or Not to Drop?, Juliane Fürst Part I: Dropping Out
in Spirit Chapter 1: The Biography of a Scandal: Experimenting with Yoga
during Romanian Late Socialism, Irina Costache Chapter 2: The Imaginary
Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia, Terje Toomistu Chapter 3: Art
and "Madness": Weapons of the Marginal during Socialism in Eastern Europe,
Maria-Alina Asavei Chapter 4: Student Activists and Yugoslavia's Islamic
Revival: Sarajevo, 1970-1975, Madigan Andrea Fichter Part II: Intellectual
Dropping Out Chapter 5: Reader Questionnaires in Samizdat Journals: Who
Owns Aleksandr Blok?, Josephine von Zitzewitz Chapter 6: The Spirit of
Pacifism: Social and Cultural Origins of the Grassroots Peace Movement in
the Late Soviet Period, Irina Gordeeva Chapter 7: Dropping Out of Socialism
with the Commodore 64: Polish Youth, Home Computers, and Social Identities,
Patryk Wasiak Part III: Dropping Out in Style Chapter 8: "We All Live in a
Yellow Submarine": Dropping Out in a Leningrad Commune, Juliane Fürst
Chapter 9: Ignoring Dictatorship? Punk Rock, Subculture, and Entanglement
in the GDR, Jeff Hayton Chapter 10: "Under Any Form of Government, I Am
Partisan": The Siberian Underground from Anti-Soviet to National-Bolshevist
Provocation, Ewgeniy Kasakow Part IV: Dropping Out Economics Chapter 11:
Living in the Material World: Money in the Soviet Rock Underground, Anna
Kan Chapter 12: Socialism's Empty Promise: Housing Vacancy and Squatting in
the German Democratic Republic, Peter Angus Mitchell Conclusion: Dropping
Out of Socialism? A Western Perspective, Joachim Häberlen