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Children of Communism - Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Children of Communism - Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Hungarian History
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As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near
a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely
death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the
evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of
the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born. The origin
of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultivated morality
tale of the dangers posed by allegedly rebellious youths to the
conformity of communist communities. In time, governments across
Cold War Europe manufactured similar stories about the threats
posed by groups of unruly adolescents. In Children of Communism,
Sandor Horvath explores this youth counterculture in the Eastern
Bloc, how young people there imagined the West, and why this
generation proved so crucial to communist identity politics. He not
only reveals how communism shaped youth culture, but also how young
people shaped official policy. A fascinating read on the power of
youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for
the first generation to have been born under communism and how one
evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed
lives.
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