The socialist sixties : crossing borders in the Second World / edited by Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Socialist 1960s in Global Perspective / Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker -- Socialist Modern -- This is Tomorrow! Becoming a Consumer in the Soviet Sixties / Susan E. Reid -- Modernity Unbound : The New Soviet City of the Sixties / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Sputnik Premiers in Havana : An Historical Ethnography of the 1960 Soviet Exhibition / João Filipe Gonçalves -- Contact Zones -- The Thaw Goes International : Soviet Literature in Translation and Transit in the 1960s / Polly Jones -- Guitar Poetry, Democratic Socialism, and the Limits of 1960s Internationalism / Rossen Djagalov -- Songs from the Wood, Love from the Fields : The Soviet Tourist Song Movement / Christian Noack -- Look Left, Drive Right : Internationalisms at the 1968 World Youth Festival / Nicholas Rutter -- A Test of Friendship : Soviet-Czechoslovak Tourism and the Prague Spring / Rachel Applebaum -- Popular Culture and Media -- Postmemory, Counter-Memory : Soviet Cinema of the 1960s / Lilya Kaganovsky -- The Politics of Privatization : Television Entertainment and the Yugoslav Sixties / Sabina Mihelj -- Playing Catch-Up : Soviet Media and Soccer Hooliganism, 1965-1975 / Robert Edelman -- Listening to Los Beatles : Being Young in 1960s Cuba / Anne Luke -- In Search of an Ending : Seventeen Moments and the Seventies / Stephen Lovell.

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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 categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.

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