„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.
