Introduction to the Young Socialist Alliance
Title | Introduction to the Young Socialist Alliance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
Socialist Fun
Title | Socialist Fun PDF eBook |
Author | Gleb Tsipursky |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2016-09-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822981254 |
Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of clubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin's paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community—all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad.
Pages for Young Socialists
Title | Pages for Young Socialists PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick James Gould |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Conduct of life |
ISBN |
Introducing the Young Socialist Alliance
Title | Introducing the Young Socialist Alliance PDF eBook |
Author | Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
Join the Young Socialist Alliance
Title | Join the Young Socialist Alliance PDF eBook |
Author | Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
The Young Socialist Movement in America from 1905 to 1940
Title | The Young Socialist Movement in America from 1905 to 1940 PDF eBook |
Author | Patti McGill Peterson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Socialism |
ISBN |
The Young Socialist
Title | The Young Socialist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2015-03-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780692570913 |
In 2013, President Barack Obama said "I am not the strapping young ... socialist I used to be.