Russia's Youth and its Culture

`Pilkington starts out with better credentials than almost all other Western and Russian researchers (who are largely middle-aged men) into Russian youth culture: she is young, punkish and au fait with modern youth culture. Add to that her fluent Russian, solid knowledge of Russian society cultural theories in East and West, and the reader is faced with a unique phenomenon - a book written from the scholarly perspective of a Western sociologist and by someone who is as much nasha ("one of us") to Russian as to Western youth groups. Her study is all the more authoritative in that its final section is based on two periods of fieldwork in Moscow during which she tusovala ("hung out") with various youth groups, particularly the stilyagi, experiences harnassed to painstaking ethnographic information gathering .... the book will long be quoted as an enriching and seminial work on the study of youth culture.' - James Riordan, Europe-Asia Studies

`It is an essential book for all students of youth culture, whether they have a particular interest in Russia or not. ... As an example of how an exploration of youth culture can be the centre of a wider social study of a historical period, Pilkington's book must be judged very highly.' - Young People Now

`Pilkington's enthusiasm for her subject and her mastery of cultural/ethnographic approaches shine through and so the reader gains a rare insight into what makes Russian youth tick.' - Christopher Williams, Education in Russia, the Independent States and Eastern Europe

`What rocked the steppes before McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and hordes of other post-perestroika carpetbaggers arrived to fleece the youth market? Author Hilary Pilkington... aims to tell us. Through theoretical analysis, field work, and interviews, she chronicles... the genesis of Russian youth movements form the preiod immediately preceeding the 1917 Bolshevik revolution through 1993's burgeoning free-market frenzy, eschewing glib pop historicism in favour of painstaking research' - San Francisco Bay Chronicle

Autorentext
Hilary Pilkington is a lecturer in Russian Politics and Society at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham.

Klappentext
Applies the methods of cultural studies research to Russian youth, deconstructing social discourse and providing an alternative reading based on unique ethnographic fieldwork from Moscow.

Inhalt
Introduction Part I Youth and youth culture: theoretical paradigms 1 On the road to nowhere? Understanding youth culture in the West 2 Building the road to nowhere: Youth in the Soviet-Russian tradition Part II Reconstructing Soviet youth, 1985 3 Youth under the spotlight of glasnost, 19854 The politicization of the youth debate, 1987 The neformaly 5 Youth as object of social policy, 1990Part III Deconstructing the constructed: a case study of Moscow youth culture 6 Studying Russia: From masochism to methodology 7 Introducing the subjects 8 Doing the Moscow shuffle: An analysis of the cultural practices of a Moscow tusovka `Embodied communication defining a framework for analysis. Conclusion: Partying at the barricades

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