Soviet youth behaviour and contemporary problems are discussed, including culture and pop music, gangs and drug addicts, delinquents and deviants, providing an insight into their life and attitudes, and an opportunity to understand youth problems in another society and the ways they are dealt with.

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University of Bradford, UK

Jim Riordan

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Book Title: Soviet Youth Culture
Editors: Jim Riordan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19932-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-49426-4Published: 19 May 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19932-7Published: 19 May 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 148
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Soviet Youth Culture

The Komsomol

The Rock Music Community

Rural Youth

The Political Socialisation of Schoolchildren

Teenage Gangs, ‘Afgantsy’ and Neofascists

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