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Flowers Through Concrete - Explorations in Soviet Hippieland (Hardcover)
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Flowers Through Concrete - Explorations in Soviet Hippieland (Hardcover)
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Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland takes
the reader on a journey into the lives and thoughts of Soviet
hippies. In the face of disapproval and repression, they created a
version of Western counterculture, skillfully adapting to,
manipulating, and shaping their late socialist environment. Flowers
through Concrete takes its readers into the underground hippieland
and beyond, situating the world of hippies firmly in late Soviet
reality and offering both an unusual history of the last Soviet
decades as well as a case study of transnational youth culture and
East-West globalization. Flowers through Concrete is based on over
a hundred interviews, declassified documents, and private archives
hidden for many decades. It tells the almost forgotten story of how
hippie communities sprang up across the Soviet Union in the
late-60s, often under the tutelage of the rebellious offspring of
privileged households at the heart of the Soviet establishment. It
charts how these communities linked up to create an impressive
network with elaborate customs and rituals, ensuring its survival
for more than two decades. Flowers through Concrete recounts not
only a compelling story of survival against the odds - hippies who
were harassed by police, shorn of their hair by civilian guards,
and confined in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who believed
non-conformism was a symptom of schizophrenia - but also advances a
surprising argument. It suggests that the land of Soviet hippies
and the world of late socialism were not entirely incompatible, but
in fact meshed surprisingly well. Ultimately, it was not the KGB
but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s that ended the Soviet
hippie sistema.
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