{"product_id":"flowers-through-concrete-juliane-frst-9780198788324","title":"Flowers Through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland","description":"\u003cem\u003eFlowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland\u003c\/em\u003e does what the title promises. It takes readers on a journey into a world few knew existed: the lives and thoughts of Soviet hippies, who in the face of disapproval and repression created a version of Western counterculture, skilfully adapting, manipulating, and shaping it to their late socialist environment. As a quasi-guide into the underground hippieland, readers are situated in the world of hippies firmly in late Soviet reality and are offered an unusual history of the last Soviet decades as well as a case study in the power of transnational youth cultures. \u003cem\u003eFlowers through Concrete\u003c\/em\u003e recounts not only a compelling story of survival against the odds-hippies were harassed by police, shorn of their hair by civilian guards, and confined in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who believed non-conformism was a symptom of schizophrenia. It also advances a surprising argument: despite obvious antagonism the land of Soviet hippies and the world of late socialism were not incompatible. Indeed, Soviet hippies and late socialist reality meshed so well that the hostile, yet stable, relationship that emerged was in many ways symbiotic. Ultimately, it was not the KGB but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s that ended the Soviet hippie sistema.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juliane F?st\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198788320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198788324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 5.90w x 1.40d","brand":"Juliane F?st","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990928883967,"sku":"9780198788324","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2435d2c-847e-4444-98ec-cb7a6e9611a4.jpg?v=1683307476","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flowers-through-concrete-juliane-frst-9780198788324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}