Dropping Out of Socialism : The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781498525152
- 947
- HN380.7.A8.D767 2017
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I DROPPING OUT IN SPIRIT -- Chapter 1 The Biography of a Scandal -- Chapter 2 The Imaginary Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia -- Chapter 3 Art and "Madness" -- Chapter 4 Student Activists and Yugoslavia's Islamic Revival -- Part II DROPPING OUT INTELLECTUALLY -- Chapter 5 Reader Questionnaires in Samizdat Journals -- Chapter 6 The Spirit of Pacifism -- Chapter 7 Dropping Out of Socialism with the Commodore 64 -- Part III DROPPING OUT IN STYLE -- Chapter 8 "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine" -- Chapter 9 Ignoring Dictatorship? Punk Rock, Subculture, and Entanglement in the GDR -- Chapter 10 "Under Any Form of Government, I Am Partisan" -- Part IV DROPPING OUT ECONOMICS -- Chapter 11 Living in the Material World -- Chapter 12 Socialism's Empty Promise -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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