Youth Subcultures as a form of Protest to Authoritarian Regime (on the Example of Soviet Ukraine in the 1950s-1980s)
Svitlana Soroka
Department of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 68 Desantnikiv 10, 54-003 Mykolayivhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-0388
Abstract
The reasons for the emergence of a youth subculture in Ukraine in the 1950s are analyzed in the article. The main types of subcultures, their ideology and features of activity are studied. The author shows the evolution of the youth subculture depending on socio-political changes in the country and analyzes the main ways of authority fighting against youth subcultures. The role of youth subculture in an authoritarian society on the example of Soviet Ukraine in the 1950-1980 years is defined.
Keywords:
youth subculture, authoritarian regime, youth protest, youth policy, soviet regimeReferences
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Levikova Svetlana, 2004, Molodezhnaya subkultura, Fair-Press, Moskva.
Levin Boris and Levin Mikhail, 1991, Narkomaniya i narkomany, Prosveshcheniye, Мoskva.
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Materials about the fact that the group of Komsomol and young people in Lviv was trying to create a "party of freedom - hippies", 1970, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 7, descr. 20, file 609.
Mazurova Alla and Rozin Mikhail, 1990, Razvitie, struktura i sushnost hippizma, in: Po nepisanym zakonam ulicy, Yuridicheskaya literatura, Мoskva, p. 99-117.
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Rajh Vilgelm, 1997, Psihologiya mass i fashizm, Universitetskaya kniga, Sankt-Peterburg.
Razumkov Aleksandr and Khodakovskiy Sergey, 1989, Samodeyatelnye obedineniya molodezhi, , Obshchestvo „Znaniye” USSR, Kiev.
Reference by the secretary of the Central Committee the Communist Party of Ukraine S.V. Chervonenko on measures to improve the activities of the Komsomol and educational work among young people of 28 June 1958, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 1, descr. 24, file 4716.
Reference, detailed notes for working with foreign students; the work of higher educational institutions, the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR and the Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic, the improvement of the network of vocational schools, 1983, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 1, descr. 25, file 2405.
Reports of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, the Prosecutor's Office, the State Security Committee on the facts of anti-social manifestations among a separate part of the Komsomol and youth, 1971, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 7, descr. 20, file 795.
Resolution of the Central Committee of the Komsomol on issues of intra-union, ideological work and labor education of the republican Komsomol organization, 1985, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 7, descr. 20, file 3699.
Resolutions of the Presidium of Central Committee the Communist party of Ukraine "Special folder", 1959, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 1, descr. 16, file 85.
Savchenko Vyacheslav, 1987, Za shirmoj firmy, Krymskij komsomolec, 26 sentyabrya, p. 4, 9.
Shepanskaya Tatiana, 1990, Simvolika molodezhnoj subkultury (funkcionalnyj analiz), in: David Feldshtejn and Leonid Radzihovskij (red.), Psihologicheskie osobennosti samodeyatelnyh podrostkovo-yunosheskih grupp, Izdatelstvo APN SSSR, Мoskva, p. 33-43.
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Shubin Aleksandr, 2001, Ot “zastoya” k reformam v SSSR v 1917-1985 godah, “Rossiyskaya politicheskaya entsiklopediya” (ROSSPEN), Мoskva.
Tarabukin Yuriy, 2001, Sociologiya molodi, Fitosociocentr, Kyiv.
Transcript of a meeting of two secretaries of the city committee of the Lenin's Communist Society of Youth of Ukraine on the issue of the work of youth cafes, 1971, CSAPO of Ukraine, fund 7, descr. 20, file 464.
Troickij Artem, 1990, Rok-muzyka v SSSR, Izdatelstvo “Kniga”, Мoskva.
Yakovlev Aleksandr, 2000, Vremya Andropova, Argumenty i fakty, nr 19, p. 10, 15.
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Soroka, S. (2019). Youth Subcultures as a form of Protest to Authoritarian Regime (on the Example of Soviet Ukraine in the 1950s-1980s). Studia Warmińskie, 56, 391–403. https://doi.org/10.31648/sw.3504
Svitlana Soroka
Department of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 68 Desantnikiv 10, 54-003 Mykolayiv
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-0388
Department of Public Administration, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, 68 Desantnikiv 10, 54-003 Mykolayiv
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2022-0388
