Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet BlocJuliane Fürst, Josie McLellan 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. |
Contents
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The Imaginary Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia | 41 |
Weapons of the Marginal during | 63 |
Social and Cultural Origins of | 129 |
Dropping Out of Socialism with the Commodore | 157 |
Dropping | 179 |
Ignoring Dictatorship? Punk Rock Subculture | 207 |
Money in the Soviet | 255 |
Housing Vacancy and Squatting | 277 |
Dropping Out of Socialism? A Western Perspective | 303 |
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About the Contributors | 341 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc |
| Editors | Juliane Fürst, Josie McLellan |
| Contributors | Juliane Fürst, 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 |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 |
| ISBN | 1498525156, 9781498525152 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Eastern History / Europe / Former Soviet Republics Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism |
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