Youth Subcultures of the USSR in the 1950–1980s

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.191217.236How to use a DOI?

Keywords

youth subcultures, rock music, “stilyagi”, hippies, local and territorial youth subcultures, counterculture, criminal (thieves’) subculture

Abstract

The present article deals with subcultures and amateur cultural activities of the Soviet youth. It attempts to substantiate the important role those socio-cultural youth innovations played in the USSR. Subcultural entities provided the patterns of cultural behavior, further developed into models of conduct for the younger generation of Soviet citizens. Specific examples illustrate that there are two lines of the subcultural movement: subcultures developed under the Western influence and those of domestic origin. It is also stated that despite the counteractions taken by the authorities (until the late 1980s), not only did subcultures not disappear, but they even expanded their influence on the Soviet youth.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Stanislav Gennadyevich Davydov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/14
TI  - Youth Subcultures of the USSR in the 1950–1980s
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 775
EP  - 778
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.191217.236
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.191217.236
ID  - Davydov2020
ER  -