From the big screen to the streets of Kaunas. Youth cultural practices and Communist party discourse in Soviet Lithuania

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
From the big screen to the streets of Kaunas. Youth cultural practices and Communist party discourse in Soviet Lithuania
In the Journal:
Cahiers du monde russe. 2013, 54, 3/4, p. 467-490
Summary / Abstract:

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: 20 amžius; Sovietinis laikotarpis; Jaunimas; Protestai; Komunistų partija; 20th century; Soviet period; Youth; Protests; Communist party.

ENOn May 18, 1972, approximately 2,000 young people participated in a street demonstration in Kaunas, Soviet Lithuania. The mass protest followed the funeral of nineteen‑year‑old Romas Kalanta, who immolated himself on May 14. Official descriptions of the street demonstrations appear to present a stagnant discourse of proper communist values and a condemnation of the influence of Western cultural practices on Soviet youth. This article argues that, instead, they reveal the fault lines of negotiations between authorities and youth over the acceptable boundaries of Soviet youth’s cultural practices and social responsibilities in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.4000/monderusse.7960
ISSN:
1252-6576; 1777-5388
Related Publications:
Sovietinė nomenklatūra ir pramonė Lietuvoje 1965-1985 metais / Saulius Grybkauskas. Vilnius : Lietuvos istorijos instituto leidykla, 2011. 437 p.
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