„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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