The detrimental passions of the population of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. The charm of vice
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The behavior not adopted by society or law exists in any society. The problems of drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution and other pernicious passions are part of mass culture and the subject of scientific study. The book is dedicated to the asocial and non-traditional forms of free pastime of the inhabitants of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. This period is not chosen by chance. The civil war, the “red” and “white” terror, the hunger and epidemics of the rash typhus, entailed the death of millions of people, in March 1921, a new economic policy came - NEP, which significantly influenced culture ...
The book is filed by the texts of that time in order to more fully convey the “spirit of the era”, to give the reader “hear” the voices of contemporaries of the described events. The authors were attracted not so much by the struggle with certain public vices as the nature of their distribution in the leisure sphere, the motivation of consumers of various types of deviant leisure and the infrastructure of its proposal
The book is filed by the texts of that time in order to more fully convey the “spirit of the era”, to give the reader “hear” the voices of contemporaries of the described events. The authors were attracted not so much by the struggle with certain public vices as the nature of their distribution in the leisure sphere, the motivation of consumers of various types of deviant leisure and the infrastructure of its proposal
Author:
Author:Sidorchuk Ilya Viktorovich, Ulyanova S.A.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Series:
Series: All about St. Petersburg
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-227-08873-4
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