Dropping out of Socialism

The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Former Soviet Republics, Eastern Europe, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Communism & Socialism
Cover of the book Dropping out of Socialism by Irina Costache, Madigan Andrea Fichter, Juliane Fürst, Irina Gordeeva, Joachim Häberlen, Jeff Hayton, Anna Kan, Ewgeniy Kasakow, Peter Angus Mitchell, Terje Toomistu, Patryk Wasiak, Josephine von Zitzewitz, Maria Alina Asavei, Lexington Books
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Author: Irina Costache, Madigan Andrea Fichter, Juliane Fürst, Irina Gordeeva, Joachim Häberlen, Jeff Hayton, Anna Kan, Ewgeniy Kasakow, Peter Angus Mitchell, Terje Toomistu, Patryk Wasiak, Josephine von Zitzewitz, Maria Alina Asavei ISBN: 9781498525152
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: December 13, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Irina Costache, Madigan Andrea Fichter, Juliane Fürst, Irina Gordeeva, Joachim Häberlen, Jeff Hayton, Anna Kan, Ewgeniy Kasakow, Peter Angus Mitchell, Terje Toomistu, Patryk Wasiak, Josephine von Zitzewitz, Maria Alina Asavei
ISBN: 9781498525152
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: December 13, 2016
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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.

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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.

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