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Russia's Youth and Its Culture : A Nation's Constructors and Constructed
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
041509044X
ISBN-13
9780415090445
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038300031
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Publication Name
Russia's Youth and Its Culture : a Nation's Constructors and Constructed
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Subject
Sociology / General, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
93-026766
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
'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
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.2350947
Table Of Content
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, 1985-91 3 Youth under the spotlight of glasnost, 1985-6 4 The politicization of the youth debate, 1987-9: The neformaly 5 Youth as object of social policy, 1990-1 Part 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
Synopsis
Since the political whirlwinds of the mid-1980s and the fall of communism in 1991, Russia has undergone dramatic social change, much of which has escaped the attention of Western media. In her new book, Hilary Pilkington applies the methods of cultural studies research to the study of Russian youth. She does this by deconstructing' the social discourses within which Russian youth has been constructed and by providing an alternative reading of youth cultural activity, based on an ethnographic study of Moscow youth culture at the end of the 1980s. The book also charts the passage of western youth cultural studies in the twentieth century and suggests some new ways forward in the light of the Russian experience. Hilary Pilkington traces the cultural themes of youth culture in the Anglo-American tradition and within the Soviet Union, before examining the impact of perestroika on the media and its ramifications for the discussion of youth. The book ends with a study of young people in Moscow and youth cultural groups; the product of field work and interviews in the city., Since the political whirlwinds of the mid-1980s and the fall of communism in 1991, Russia has undergone dramatic social change, much of which has escaped the attention of Western media.In her new book, Hilary Pilkington applies the methods of cultural studies research to the study of Russian youth. She does this by 'deconstructing' the social discourses within which Russian youth has been constructed and by providing an alternative reading of youth cultural activity, based on an ethnographic study of Moscow youth culture at the end of the 1980s.The book also charts the passage of western youth cultural studies in the twentieth century and suggests some new ways forward in the light of the Russian experience. Hilary Pilkington traces the cultural themes of youth culture in the Anglo-American tradition and within the Soviet Union, before examining the impact of perestroika on the media and its ramifications for the discussion of youth. The book ends with a study of young people in Moscow and youth cultural groups; the product of field work and interviews in the city., 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.
LC Classification Number
HQ799.R9P495 1994
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