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The socialist sixties : crossing borders in the Second World / edited by Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acculturation--History--20th century.
- Acculturation.
- Popular culture--Soviet Union--History.
- Popular culture.
- Social change--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History.
- Social change.
- Socialism--Social aspects--Soviet Union--History.
- Socialism.
- Communist countries--Social life and customs.
- Communist countries.
- Popular culture--Communist countries--History.
- Social change--Social aspects--Communist countries--History.
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs--1917-1970.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.
- Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 1960's have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and
- Contents:
- Cover; THE SOCIALIST SIXTIES; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Socialist 1960's in Global Perspective; Socialist Modern; 1 This Is Tomorrow!: Becoming a Consumer in the Soviet Sixties; 2 Modernity Unbound: The New Soviet City of the Sixties; 3 Sputnik Premiers in Havana: A Historical Ethnography of the 1960 Soviet Exposition; Contact Zones; 4 The Thaw Goes International: Soviet Literature in Translation and Transit in the 1960's; 5 Guitar Poetry, Democratic Socialism, and the Limits of 1960's Internationalism
- 6 Songs from the Wood, Love from the Fields: The Soviet Tourist Song Movement 7 Look Left, Drive Right: Internationalisms at the 1968 World Youth Festival; 8 A Test of Friendship: Soviet-Czechoslovak Tourism and the Prague Spring; Popular Culture and Media; 9 Post memory, Counter memory: Soviet Cinema of the 1960's; 10 The Politics of Privatization: Television Entertainment and the Yugoslav Sixties; 11 Playing Catch-Up: Soviet Media and Soccer Hooliganism, 1965-75; 12 Listening to los Beatles: Being Young in 1960's Cuba; 13 In Search of an Ending: Seventeen Moments and the Seventies; Index
- Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253009494
- 0253009499
- OCLC:
- 848895532
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