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The essays in this collection make up the first study of "dropping out" of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected mainstream socialist culture. In the process, multiple drop-out cultures were created, with their own spaces, music, values, style, slang, ideology and networks. Under socialism, this phenomenon was little-known outside the socialist sphere. Only very recently has it been possible to reconstruct it through archival work, oral histories and memoirs. Such a diverse set of subcultures demands a multi-disciplinary approach: the essays in this volume are written by historians, anthropologists and scholars of literature, cultural and gender studies. The history of these movements not only shows us a side of state socialist life that was barely known in the west. It also sheds new light on the demise and eventual collapse of late socialism, and raises important questions about the similarities and differences between Eastern and Western subcultures.
Contents
Introduction: To Drop or Not to Drop?, Juliane Fürst
Part I: Dropping Out in Spirit
Chapter 1: The Biography of a Scandal: Experimenting with Yoga during Romanian Late Socialism, Irina Costache
Chapter 2: The Imaginary Elsewhere of the Hippies in Soviet Estonia, Terje Toomistu
Chapter 3: Art and "Madness": Weapons of the Marginal during Socialism in Eastern Europe, Maria-Alina Asavei
Chapter 4: Student Activists and Yugoslavia's Islamic Revival: Sarajevo, 1970-1975, Madigan Andrea Fichter
Part II: Intellectual Dropping Out
Chapter 5: Reader Questionnaires in Samizdat Journals: Who Owns Aleksandr Blok?, Josephine von Zitzewitz
Chapter 6: The Spirit of Pacifism: Social and Cultural Origins of the Grassroots Peace Movement in the Late Soviet Period, Irina Gordeeva
Chapter 7: Dropping Out of Socialism with the Commodore 64: Polish Youth, Home Computers, and Social Identities, Patryk Wasiak
Part III: Dropping Out in Style
Chapter 8: "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine": Dropping Out in a Leningrad Commune, Juliane Fürst
Chapter 9: Ignoring Dictatorship? Punk Rock, Subculture, and Entanglement in the GDR, Jeff Hayton
Chapter 10: "Under Any Form of Government, I Am Partisan": The Siberian Underground from Anti-Soviet to National-Bolshevist Provocation, Ewgeniy Kasakow
Part IV: Dropping Out Economics
Chapter 11: Living in the Material World: Money in the Soviet Rock Underground, Anna Kan
Chapter 12: Socialism's Empty Promise: Housing Vacancy and Squatting in the German Democratic Republic, Peter Angus Mitchell
Conclusion: Dropping Out of Socialism? A Western Perspective, Joachim Häberlen
