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Dropping out of Socialism


Dropping out of Socialism

The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc

von: Juliane Fürst, Josie McLellan, Maria Alina Asavei, Irina Costache, Madigan Andrea Fichter, Irina Gordeeva, Joachim Häberlen, Jeff Hayton, Anna Kan, Ewgeniy Kasakow, Peter Angus Mitchell, Terje Toomistu, Patryk Wasiak, Josephine von Zitzewitz

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Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 13.12.2016
ISBN/EAN: 9781498525152
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 352

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<span><span>The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process, multiple drop-out cultures were created, with their own spaces, music, values, style, slang, ideology and networks. Under socialism, this phenomenon was little-known outside the socialist sphere. Only very recently has it been possible to reconstruct it through archival work, oral histories and memoirs. Such a diverse set of subcultures demands a multi-disciplinary approach: the essays in this volume are written by historians, anthropologists and scholars of literature, cultural and gender studies. The history of these movements not only shows us a side of state socialist life that was barely known in the west. It also sheds new light on the demise and eventual collapse of late socialism, and raises important questions about the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western subcultures.</span></span>
<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>Introduction: To Drop or Not to Drop?, </span><span>Juliane Fürst</span></span>
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<span><span>Part I: Dropping Out in Spirit</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 1: The Biography of a Scandal: Experimenting with Yoga during Romanian Late Socialism, </span><span>Irina Costache</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: The Imaginary Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia, </span><span>Terje Toomistu</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Art and “Madness”: Weapons of the Marginal during Socialism in Eastern Europe, </span><span>Maria-Alina Asavei</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: Student Activists and Yugoslavia’s Islamic Revival: Sarajevo, 1970–1975, </span><span>Madigan Andrea Fichter</span></span>
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<span><span>Part II: Intellectual Dropping Out </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: Reader Questionnaires in Samizdat Journals: Who Owns Aleksandr Blok?, </span><span>Josephine von Zitzewitz</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: The Spirit of Pacifism: Social and Cultural Origins of the Grassroots Peace Movement in the Late Soviet Period,</span><span> Irina Gordeeva</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: Dropping Out of Socialism with the Commodore 64: Polish Youth, Home Computers, and Social Identities, </span><span>Patryk Wasiak</span></span>
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<span><span>Part III: Dropping Out in Style</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: “We All Live in a Yellow Submarine”: Dropping Out in a Leningrad Commune, </span><span>Juliane Fürst</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 9: Ignoring Dictatorship? Punk Rock, Subculture, and Entanglement in the GDR,</span><span> Jeff Hayton</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 10: “Under Any Form of Government, I Am Partisan”: The Siberian Underground from Anti-Soviet to National-Bolshevist Provocation, </span><span>Ewgeniy Kasakow</span></span>
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<span><span>Part IV: Dropping Out Economics</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 11: Living in the Material World: Money in the Soviet Rock Underground, </span><span>Anna Kan</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 12: Socialism’s Empty Promise: Housing Vacancy and Squatting in the German Democratic Republic,</span><span> Peter Angus Mitchell</span></span>
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<span><span>Conclusion: Dropping Out of Socialism? A Western Perspective,</span><span> Joachim Häberlen</span></span>
<span><span>Juliane Fürst</span><span> is senior lecturer in twentieth-century history at the University of Bristol.<br><br></span><span>Josie McLellan</span><span> is reader in modern European history at the University of Bristol.</span></span>

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