Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Adolescence in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture

Chapter 3 Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe

Chapter 4 Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism

Chapter 5 Revival without Nostalgia: The ‘Dizel’ Movement, Serbian 1990s Cultural Trauma and Globalised Youth Cultures

Chapter 6 Symptom of the Loser and the Melancholy of the Post-Soviet Generation

Chapter 7 ‘Rap on Rap Is Sacred’: The Appropriation of Hip Hop in the Czech Republic

Chapter 8 Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion: Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism

Chapter 9 Everything Feels Bad: Figurations of the Self in Contemporary Eastern European Literature

Chapter 10 ‘Bright Reference Point of Our Youth’: Bondy, Podsiadło and the Redefinition of the Underground

Chapter 11 Fallen Vanguards and Vanished Rebels? Political Youth Involvement in Extraordinary Times

Chapter 12 ‘To Serve like a Man’ — Ukraine’s Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change

Chapter 13 The Conception of Revolutionary Youth in Maksim Gor’kii’s The Mother and Zakhar Prilepin’s San’kia

Chapter 14 ‘Polittusovka ’ — An Alternative Public Space of Young Politicians in Contemporary Russia

Chapter 15 Youth Cultures in Contemporary Russia: Memory, Politics, Solidarities

Chapter 16 Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia

Chapter 17 Battlefield Internet: Young Russian SNS Users and New-Media State Propaganda

Chapter 18 ‘Flashy’ Pictures: Social Activist Comics and Russian Youth

Chapter 19 Youth in the Post-Soviet Space: Is the Central Asian Case Really So Different?