Naslov
Late Socialist Youth Culture in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union

Autori
Zubak, Marko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Restless Youth. Growing up in Europe, 1945 to now

Urednik/ci
Dupont, Christine ; Burns, Kieran

Izdavač
House of European History

Grad
Brisel

Godina
2019

Raspon stranica
90-101

ISBN
978-92-846-3145-2

Ključne riječi
Youth Culture, Late Socialism, Eastern Europe

Sažetak
The rise of Western post-war youth culture has been extensively researched, frequently in conjunction with the “long 1960s”, a common label for the “extended” decade when the youth became a relevant agent in the major ongoing political and cultural transformations. Much less, on the other hand, is known about their peers on the other side of the great ideological divide. Up until recently, our knowledge of youth under socialism was limited to the common ideological project of political socialization and its key instrument: the main youth organization Komsomol whose many avatars were copy-pasted across the region from the Soviet blueprint. Making use of the new research that moved from political/formal to cultural and symbolic aspects of youth policies, this chapter portrays socialist youth not only as a passive object of state intervention but also as an active political and cultural agent, painting a picture that diverges from the dated Cold-War dichotomies of oppression and dissent. Spanning over three decades from the 1960s to the 1980s, youth experiences and representations as the first big consequences of de- Stalinization emerged all the way to the eventual fall of the regime. Regionally, it covers the whole socialist Europe in order to capture common threads in treatment of youth as well as the idiosyncrasies which developed in individual countries. (Late) socialist youth cultures are explored in various dimensions and manifestations, always keeping in mind the political evolution that stood in the background as well as the complex and multifaceted impact of Westernization and growing cross-cultural fertilization. Chapter identifies a range of themes and topics that played a vital role in the formation of these youth cultures, drawing frequent parallels with the global developments. These include informal counter-cultures, in particular rock culture and more stylistically diversified musical subcultures of the late 1970s and 1980s. Chapter also examines gradual spread of youth leisure, travel and tourism, local effects of sexual revolution, along with flourishing popular culture, from films to magazines, of which youth became a prime recipient and at times a key producer. In line with the new paradigms of late socialism, these experiences and representations are shown to range from openly oppositional to openly conformist along with the big grey zones in between.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Sociologija, Povijest

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