Socialist Sixties Crossing Borders in the Second World

Name: Socialist Sixties Crossing Borders in the Second World
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ISBN: 9780253009371

ISBN-10: 0253009375

ISBN-13: 9780253009371

Edition: 2013

Authors: Anne E. Gorsuch, Diane P. Koenker

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The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Socialist 1960s in Global Perspective



Socialist Modern



This Is Tomorrow! Becoming a Consumer in the Soviet Sixties




Modernity Unbound: The New Soviet City of the Sixties




Sputnik Premiers in Havana: A Historical Ethnography of the 1960 Soviet Exposition



Contact Zones



The Thaw Goes International: Soviet Literature in Translation and Transit in the 1960s




Guitar Poetry, Democratic Socialism, and the Limits of 1960s Internationalism




Songs from the Wood, Love from the Fields: The Soviet Tourist Song Movement




Look Left, Drive Right: Internationalisms at the 1968 World Youth Festival




A Test of Friendship: Soviet-Czechoslovak Tourism and the Prague Spring



Popular Culture and Media



Postmemory, Countermemory: Soviet Cinema of the 1960s




The Politics of Privatization: Television Entertainment and the Yugoslav Sixties




Playing Catch-Up: Soviet Media and Soccer Hooliganism, 1965-75




Listening to los Beatles: Being Young in 1960s Cuba




In Search of an Ending: Seventeen Moments and the Seventies



Index


Contributors