Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 Tsipursky Gleb
Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 Tsipursky Gleb Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as…
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Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970 Tsipursky Gleb
Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture.The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of klubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance.
In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and