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The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent role models, dissident counter-cultures or artistic breakings of taboo. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context takes this situation as a starting point for an examination of generational change, cultural belongings, political activism and everyday practices of young people in different Eastern European countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It argues that the conditions of global change not only call for a differentiated evaluation of youth cultures, but also for a revision of our understanding of 'youth' itself – in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Developmental psychology --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of culture --- Age group sociology --- Sociology --- Politics --- Didactics of the arts --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Physiology: reproduction & development. Ages of life --- sociologie --- adolescenten --- cultuur --- kinderen --- sociale wetenschappen --- steden --- culturele antropologie --- puberteit --- jongerencultuur --- socialisme --- Europese politiek --- Europe --- Childhood. --- Adolescence. --- Sociology. --- Europe—Politics and government. --- Youth—Social life and customs. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Childhood, Adolescence and Society. --- Sociology, general. --- European Politics. --- Youth Culture. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Teen-age --- Teenagers --- Puberty --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Development

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Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenomenon using case studies from Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian popular cultures. They show how in mainstream films, TV series, novels, comics and computer games, the reference to Soviet history offers role models, action patterns and even helps to justify current political and military developments. The volume thus presents new insights into the multi-layered and explosive dynamics of popular culture in Eastern Europe.

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. --- Belarus. --- Comics. --- Computer Games. --- Cultural Appropriation. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Memory. --- Culture. --- Eastern European History. --- Film. --- History. --- Literature. --- Mass Media. --- Memory Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Post-Soviet. --- Public History. --- Russia. --- Television Series. --- Ukraine.

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"This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today."--

Motion pictures --- Documentary films --- History --- History and criticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Social aspects

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