Juliane Fürst co-heads the Department of Communism and Society at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. She is the author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Communism (2017) and Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc (2016).

Flowers Through Concrete is certain to remain one of the most important interpretative works in the field of late Soviet socialism.

• Introduction Part I: Short course in the History of the Soviet Hippie Movement and Its Sistema 1: Origins 2: Consolidation 3: Maturity 4: Ritualization Part II: How Soviet Hippies and Late Socialism Made Each Other 5: Ideology 6: Kaif 7: Materiality 8: Madness 9: Gerla Epilogue

Juliane Fürst co-heads the Department of Communism and Society at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. She is the author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Communism (2017) and Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc (2016).

Flowers Through Concrete is certain to remain one of the most important interpretative works in the field of late Soviet socialism.

• Introduction Part I: Short course in the History of the Soviet Hippie Movement and Its Sistema 1: Origins 2: Consolidation 3: Maturity 4: Ritualization Part II: How Soviet Hippies and Late Socialism Made Each Other 5: Ideology 6: Kaif 7: Materiality 8: Madness 9: Gerla Epilogue

Juliane Fürst co-heads the Department of Communism and Society at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. She is the author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Communism (2017) and Dropping out of Socialism: Alternative Cultures and Lifestyles in the Soviet Bloc (2016).

Flowers Through Concrete is certain to remain one of the most important interpretative works in the field of late Soviet socialism.

• Introduction Part I: Short course in the History of the Soviet Hippie Movement and Its Sistema 1: Origins 2: Consolidation 3: Maturity 4: Ritualization Part II: How Soviet Hippies and Late Socialism Made Each Other 5: Ideology 6: Kaif 7: Materiality 8: Madness 9: Gerla Epilogue