Stiliagi and Soviet masculinities, 1945-2010 : fashion as dissent / Alla Myzelev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myzelev, Alla, author.

Series:

Studies in Design and Material Culture Series

Studies in design and material culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subculture--Soviet Union.

Subculture.

Masculinity--Soviet Union.

Masculinity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2026.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Alla Myzelev is an Professor of Art History and Museum Studies State University of New York at Geneseo.

Summary:

This book explores the Stiliagi, the Soviet Union's first youth subculture from the 1940s-1960s. It examines their Western-influenced fashion, love of jazz, and defiance of Soviet norms, revealing how they challenged traditional masculinity and reshaped Soviet cultural identity. It offers insight into their impact on Soviet and Post-Soviet culture.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright information

Dedicatoin

Contents

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: masculinity, clothing, socialism

Stiliagi as a challenge to Soviet hegemonic masculinity

Dissent as a cultural phenomenon in socialist society

Notes on the field and on the use of language

The book's methodology and structure

Chapter 1: Mainstream fashion in Russia and the Soviet Union: class, taste, masculinity

From Peter I to the early twentieth century

From the communist revolution of 1917 to Stalin's 'big deal'

From the Thaw to Perestroika

Men, fashion, subculture

Chapter 2: Stiliagi's social class: idleness, delinquency, illegal trade of youth

Soviet class theory

Subculture and class differences in the Soviet context

Those who buy, sell, and wear: fashion and other delinquencies as a crime

Speculation of goods, idle minds, and class differences

Chapter 3: Produced by stiliagi: clothes, poetry, recordings as a tool of negotiation of Soviet identity

The role of fashion in the 'tactics of the habitat'

Stiliagi's clothing inspirations

Clothing trade and porous soviet borders

The Blue Horse Group in Kharkiv

Music, poetry, and songs

Chapter 4: Stiliagi in participants' memory and Soviet press

Stiliagi in Vasily Aksyonov's writing

Stiliagi: recollections

Stiliagi in the Soviet press

Stiliagi and ideology

Chapter 5: Transformation of the stiliagi image in film in the 1950s and 1960s

Sekret Krasoty (The Secret of Beauty)

Delo Piostrykh (The Variegateds Case )

Foreigners (Inostrantsi)

Knight's Move (Khod Konyom)

Lenin's Guard (Zastava Il'icha)

Chapter 6: Stiliagi in the 1970s and 1980s: formation of prosthetic memory

Memories of being a stiliaga: Adult Daughter of a Young Man.

Masculinity measured by consumption

The play's end: the full circle

Bravo rock-n-roll group with Zhanna Aguzarova

Chapter 7: Stiliagi after Perestroika: return to heteronormativity

Soviet and post-Soviet cinema

Stiliagi by Valery Todorovsky

Post-Soviet Russia: nostalgia and internationalism

Epilogue

Appendix

Lyrics of the songs that mention or created to stiliagi

There, on a quiet ocean barge sinks with dudes

Bibliography

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5261-8220-3

9781526182180

OCLC:

1561133486