Socialist Fun Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970

Name: Socialist Fun Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970
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ISBN: 9780822963967

ISBN-10: 0822963965

ISBN-13: 9780822963967

Edition: 2015

Authors: Gleb Tsipursky

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Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study, Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off western…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 4/26/2016
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English