Flowers breaking through the asphalt. Journey to Soviet Hippie Land
Please sign in so that we can notify you about a reply
Juliane Fürst offers to embark on a journey into the underground world of Soviet hippies, who created a version of Western counterculture adapted to the conditions of life in the society of late socialism. This is not only an exciting story of the formation and survival of hippie communities, which were persecuted by the police and vigilantes, placed in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who saw symptoms of schizophrenia in their nonconformist behavior, but also a tale of how the world of hippies and the world of Soviet everyday life entered into a forced dialogue, paradoxically blending quite well with each other. Ultimately, it was not the KGB, but the advent of capitalism in the 1990s that put an end to "Hippylonia" in the Soviet Union. By examining the phenomenon of hippies in the context of studying transnational youth culture and the globalization processes of the 1960s-1970s, the author shows how the communities of hippies at the heart of the Soviet establishment united, creating an impressive network ("The System") with complex customs and rituals that allowed it to survive for over two decades. The research is based on more than a hundred interviews, declassified intelligence documents, and materials from private archives that were previously inaccessible for a long time. Juliane Fürst is a historian and head of the department "Communism and Society" at the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam.
Author:
Author:Fürst Juliane
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:History & Geography
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22.1x14.5x3 cm
Series:
Series:Historia Rossica
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-2146-6
No reviews found