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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain - Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (Hardcover)
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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain - Youth and the Global Sixties in Poland (Hardcover)
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The Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist
lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology,
counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been
well studied in the West and increasingly researched for the Global
South, young people in the "Second World" too were active
participants in these movements. The Iron Curtain was hardly a
barrier against outside influences, and young people from students
and hippies to mainstream youth in miniskirts and blue jeans saw
themselves as part of the global community of like-minded people as
well as citizens of Eastern Bloc countries. Drawing on Polish youth
magazines, rural people's diaries, sex education manuals, and
personal testimonies, Malgorzata Fidelis follows jazz lovers,
university students, hippies, and young rural rebels. Fidelis
colorfully narrates their everyday engagement with a dynamically
changing world, from popular media and consumption to
counterculture and protest movements. She delineates their
anti-authoritarian solidarities and competing visions of
transnationalism, with the West as well as the ruling communist
regime. Even as youth demonstrations were violently suppressed,
Fidelis shows, youth culture was not. By the early 1970s, the state
incorporated elements of Sixties culture into their official vision
of socialist modernity. From the perspective of youth, Malgorzata
Fidelis argues, the post-1989 transition in Poland from communism
to liberal democracy, often dubbed as "the return to Europe," was
less of a breakthrough and more of a continuation of trends in
which they participated. Indeed, they had already created new modes
of self-expression and cultural spaces in which ideas of
alternative social and political organization became imaginable.
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