Russia's youth and its culture : a nation's constructors and constructed / / Hilary Pilkington

• Autore: Pilkington Hilary <1964->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23/5/0947
• Soggetto topico: Youth - Russia (Federation); Youth - Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Russia (Federation) Social conditions; Soviet Union Social conditions 1970-1991
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary of abbreviations and terms; Introduction; Part I: Youth and youth culture: theoretical paradigms; 1 On the road to nowhere? Understanding youth culture in the West; youth in the city: subcultures and delinquency; 'The Generation Game': Youth And The Structural Functionalists; From juke-box to karaoke: youth as consumer; Ritualizing resistance: youth culture in the wake of 1968; Conclusion; 2 Building the road to nowhere Youth in the Soviet-Russian tradition ; 'Fathers And Sons': Youth In Pre-Revolutionary Russian CultureThe continuity of generations: from revolutionaries to constructors of communism; The first five year plan: the physical construction of communism; Youth in socialist society: victims of western influence; Sociologists, surveys and 'developed socialism'; From brezhnev to gorbachev: the waking state; Conclusion; Part II: Reconstructing Soviet youth 1985-91; Introduction; 3 Youth under the spotlight of glasnost, 1985-6; Youth as reconstructors of communism; Consumed by consumption? The debate on youth leisure ; The struggle to recapture youth: the origins of the neformaly debateConclusion; 4 The politicization of the youth debate, 1987-9: The neformaly; The neformaly: cause or effect of democratization?; Restructuring the komsomol; Going to the people: implementing the 'differentiated approach' to the neformaly; The liubery and others: perestroika's moral panic?; Conclusion; 5 Youth as object of social policy, 1990-1; In search of a future: the demise of the vlksm; Youth, the komsomol and the state: defining a new relationship; Youth on the margins; Conclusion ; Part III: Deconstructing the constructed: a case study of Moscow youth cultureIntroduction; 6 Studying Russia: From masochism to methodology; The politics of method; Researching the researcher; Textual analysis: the power of interpretation; 7 Introducing the subjects; Mapping the moscow youth cultural world; Kinds of neformaly; Conclusion; 8 Doing the Moscow shuffle: An analysis of the cultural practices of a Moscow tusovka; 'Embodied communication': defining a framework for analysis; Pleasure and subjectivity: forms and sites of 'embodied communication' ; En-Gendering Youth Cultural Activity: Codes of Femininity And Masculinity In Moscow TusovkiThe Tu-Sovka: Marketization, Globalization And Moscow Youth Culture; Conclusion; Conclusion: Partying at the barricades; Appendix; Glossary of youth culture slang; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the political whirlwinds of the mid-1980s and the fall of communism in 1991, Russia has undergone dramatic social change, much of which has escaped the attention of Western media.In her new book, Hilary Pilkington applies the methods of cultural studies research to the study of Russian youth. She does this by `deconstructing' the social discourses within which Russian youth has been constructed and by providing an alternative reading of youth cultural activity, based on an ethnographic study of Moscow youth culture at the end of the 1980s.The book also charts the passage of weste
• Titolo autorizzato: Russia's youth and its culture
• ISBN: 1-134-87643-2; 1-134-87644-0; 0-585-45355-1; 1-280-32160-1; 0-203-42111-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810459203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II