Children of Communism
Politicizing Youth Revolt in Communist Budapest in the 1960s
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,…
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Weitere Autoren: Cooper, Thomas (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-05971-0
- EAN: 9780253059710
- Produktnummer: 35856095
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Abbildungen: 45 b&w illus.
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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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