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Sándor Horváth - Children of Communism, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, Ungerska, 2022

Children of Communism

Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s

Av Sándor Horváth

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As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born. The origin of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultivated morality tale of the dangers posed by allegedly rebellious youths to the conformity of communist communities. In time, governments across Cold War Europe manufactured similar stories about the threats posed by groups of unruly adolescents. In Children of Communism, Sándor Horváth explores this youth counterculture in the Eastern Bloc, how young people there imagined the West, and why this generation proved so crucial to communist identity politics. He not only reveals how communism shaped youth culture, but also how young people shaped official policy.A fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.
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Sándor Horváth is Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Department for Contemporary History at the Institute of History in the Research Centre for the Humanities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is author of Stalinism Reloaded: Everyday Life in Stalin-City and Hungary and founding editor of the Hungarian Historical Review.

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Relying on oral histories and other primary sources, Horváth explores how the Communist regime manipulated state-sponsored tabloid media during the trial to legitimize its own role as guardians of public safety and to portray the youth as social deviants who were instruments of Western-style decadence. . . . Highly recommended.- C. P. Vesei (Choice) A very timely book, demonstrating why the Soviet political police were worried so much by the "criminal Americanization" that was reaching Soviet youth from socialist Hungary as well. Horváth's book is an original explanation of the role of "youth revolt" during the 1960s, which became the pattern for social and cultural developments in countries of the Warsaw Pact.- Sergei I. Zhuk (Hungarian Studies Review) Horváth shows how the state and youth actors were involved in social discourse that, on the one hand, formulated state socialist norms of behavior for young people or marked deviant behavior, and on the other hand, served to continuously justify existing power relations. (translated from German)- Maren Francke (H-SOZ-KULT)

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