Children of Communism (eBook)

Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s

Sándor Horváth (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
300 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05971-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.

— Sándor Horváth is a returning IU Press author whose previous title was very well-reviewed and has proven to already make an important impact on research in the field. In addition to his roles at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he is also the coordinator of the international research project "Cultural Opposition: Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries" and he is the editor of the journal The Hungarian Historical Review. — While a book connecting the Rolling Stones, Hungarian hippie culture, and the nefarious agendas of the communist secret police may be of interest to some general readers, this title breaks important new ground in understanding youth culture, identity politics, and the memory of life under a dictatorship. — The audience is scholars working on Communist Eastern Europe, youth politics, cultural anthropologists and sociologists, as well as schoars working on political cultures and historical representations. It is also of interest to media historians and those working on modern dictatorships. The language throughout is appropriate for upper-level undergraduates.

Autor

Sándor Horváth is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department for Contemporary History at the Institute of History in the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is author of Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City and Hungary and founding editor of the Hungarian Historical Review.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. The Hippie Stroll
2. The Trial: Casting
3. How Hooligans Are Made
4. Youth Protection
5. The Police and Uses of the Urban Space
6. The Socialist Tabloid Press
7. Protest in a Diary
8. Girl in the Gang
9. Memory
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Hungarian History
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Hungarian History
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Hungarian History
• Übersetzer: Thomas Cooper
• Zusatzinfo: 45 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • adolescents • Cold War • Counterculture • Eastern Bloc • Eastern Europe • Hippie • Hungary • Peace • Police • Policy • Protest • Resist • Rock and Roll • Rolling Stones
• ISBN-10: 0-253-05971-2 / 0253059712
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-05971-0 / 9780253059710