Title Flowers through concrete: explorations in Soviet hippieland / Juliane Fürst

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Short course in the history of the Soviet hippie movement and its sistema -- Origins -- Consolidation -- Maturity -- Ritualization -- How Soviet hippies and late socialism made each other -- Ideology -- Kaif -- Materiality -- Madness -- Gerla Summary "Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland does what the title promises. It takes readers on a journey into a world few knew existed: the lives and thoughts of Soviet hippies, who in the face of disapproval and repression created a version of Western counterculture, skilfully adapting, manipulating, and shaping it to their late socialist environment. This book is a quasi-guide into the underground hippieland, situating the world of hippies firmly in late Soviet reality and offering an unusual history of the last Soviet decades as well as a case study in the power of transnational youth cultures. It tells the almost forgotten story of how in the late sixties hippie communities sprang up across the Soviet Union, often under the tutelage of a few rebellious youngsters coming from privileged households at the heart of the Soviet establishment. Flowers through Concrete recounts not only a compelling story of survival against the odds--hippies were harassed by police, shorn of their hair by civilian guards, and confined in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who believed nonconformism was a symptom of schizophrenia. It also advances a surprising argument: despite obvious antagonism the land of Soviet hippies and the world of late socialism were not incompatible. Indeed, Soviet hippies and late socialist reality meshed so well that the hostile, yet stable, relationship that emerged was in many ways symbiotic. Ultimately, it was not the KGB but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s that ended the Soviet hippie sistema"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on August 20, 2021.) Subject Hippies -- Soviet Union -- History Counterculture -- Soviet Union -- History Civilization -- Western influences Counterculture Hippies SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Civilization -- Western influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2018000854 Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125817 Soviet Union -- History -- 1985-1991. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005836 Subject Soviet Union Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191092510 0191092517 9780191092503 0191092509

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