| Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents Contributor(s): Gorsuch, Anne E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253337666 ISBN-13: 9780253337665 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2000 Annotation: In Bolshevik Russia, the successful transformation of young people into communists was crucial for the future of the Soviet state. Soviet youth needed to be shaped into communists in every aspect of their daily lives -- work, leisure, gender relations, and family life. But how could the Bolsheviks accomplish this enormous project? What did it mean to be "made communist"? What were the consequences if prerevolutionary and "bourgeois" culture and social relations could not be transformed into new socialist forms of behavior and belief? Drawing from a wide range of sources -- diaries, party speeches, propagandistic writings, scientific studies, and literature -- Anne E. Gorsuch reveals the rich diversity of youth cultures in Soviet Russia during the 1920s. She explores the relationship between representation and reality and between official ideology and popular culture, along with the meaning of these relationships for the making of a Soviet state and society. From the clash between ultracommunist visions of what Russian young people should be and the flamboyant style of flappers and foxtrotters so prominently imported from the capitalist West, emerges a vivid picture of the construction of Soviet youth. Thoughtful and appealing, Youth in Revolutionary Russia is essential reading for those interested in popular culture and Soviet history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 305.235 |
| LCCN: 00024181 |
| Series: Indiana-Michigan Russian and East European Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.45" W x 9.53" (1.32 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents A vivid account of Bolshevik efforts to Sovietize young people in the 1920s. A very impressive work--broad, learned, and very readable. --Lynn Mally A welcome and fascinating addition to the social and cultural history of the 1920s in Russia and to the comparative study of youth politics and culture in contemporary Europe and elsewhere. --Mark von Hagen In Bolshevik Russia, the successful transformation of young people into communists was crucial for the future of the Soviet state. Soviet youth needed to be shaped into communists in every aspect of their daily lives--work, leisure, gender relations, and family life. But how could the Bolsheviks accomplish this enormous project? What did it mean to be made communist? What were the consequences if prerevolutionary and bourgeois culture and social relations could not be transformed into new socialist forms of behavior and belief? Drawing from a wide range of sources--diaries, party speeches, propagandistic writings, scientific studies, and literature--Anne E. Gorsuch reveals the rich diversity of youth cultures in Soviet Russia during the 1920s. She explores the relationship between representation and reality and between official ideology and popular culture, along with the meaning of these relationships for the making of a Soviet state and society. From the clash between ultracommunist visions of what Russian young people should be and the flamboyant style of flappers and foxtrotters so prominently imported from the capitalist West, emerges a vivid picture of the construction of Soviet youth. Thoughtful and appealing, Youth in Revoluntionary Russia is essential reading for those interested in popular culture and Soviet history. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies--Alexander Rabinowitch and William G. Rosenberg, editors Contents |