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Youth Culture in Crisis

Youth Culture in Crisis WILLIAM FIERMAN (Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.) MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT (Hamilton, NY, U.S.A.) YOUTH CULTURE IN CRISIS* A Generational Crisis The policies of glasnost' are intended to touch all social strata and age groups in the country. Most of the policies, however, which have allowed for a relaxation of ideological restrictions on the public presentation of "culture," on what can be published, performed, and filmed, have been made by a single generation, those brought to power by Gorbachev. Much was written about the anticipated generational change in the USSR in the years just prior to Gorbachev's coming to power, but the magnitude of changes in Soviet policy, brought about in part through this generational change, have gone beyond the scope envisioned by almost all Western observers. Glasnost' is a policy of reform, but it is a policy of reform framed by a particular generation. Those who are now being ap- pointed to responsible positions in the political leadership and in the cul- tural bureaucracies were bom in the 1930s and 1940s. They bring to their visions of reform, the experiences of childhood in the late Stalin years, ado- lescence or early adulthood during the false promise of the Khrushchev thaw, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Soviet and Post Soviet Review Brill

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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1075-1262
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10.1163/187633288X00158
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WILLIAM FIERMAN (Knoxville, TN, U.S.A.) MARTHA BRILL OLCOTT (Hamilton, NY, U.S.A.) YOUTH CULTURE IN CRISIS* A Generational Crisis The policies of glasnost' are intended to touch all social strata and age groups in the country. Most of the policies, however, which have allowed for a relaxation of ideological restrictions on the public presentation of "culture," on what can be published, performed, and filmed, have been made by a single generation, those brought to power by Gorbachev. Much was written about the anticipated generational change in the USSR in the years just prior to Gorbachev's coming to power, but the magnitude of changes in Soviet policy, brought about in part through this generational change, have gone beyond the scope envisioned by almost all Western observers. Glasnost' is a policy of reform, but it is a policy of reform framed by a particular generation. Those who are now being ap- pointed to responsible positions in the political leadership and in the cul- tural bureaucracies were bom in the 1930s and 1940s. They bring to their visions of reform, the experiences of childhood in the late Stalin years, ado- lescence or early adulthood during the false promise of the Khrushchev thaw,

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The Soviet and Post Soviet Review – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1988

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