Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context

Introduction; Matthias Schwarz and Heike Winkel
PART I: RECONSIDERING GENERATIONAL CHANGE
1. The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Adolescence in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture; Catriona Kelly
2. Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe; Ken Roberts
3. Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism; Herwig Reiter and Christine Steiger
4. Revival Without Nostalgia. The Dizel' Movement, Serbian Nineties Cultural Trauma and Globalized Youth Cultures; Jovana Papovi? and Astrea Pejovi?
5. Symptom of the Loser and the Melancholy of the Post-Soviet Generation; Tamara Hundorova
PART II: POPULAR BELONGINGS: SUBCULTURAL PLACES AND GLOBALIZED SPACES
6. 'Rap on Rap is Sacred': The Appropriation of Hip Hop in the Czech Republic; Anna Oravcová
7. Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion. Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism; Dominik Antonowicz, Rados?aw Kossakowski and Tomasz Szlendak
8. Everything Feels Bad. Figurations of the Self in Contemporary Eastern European Literature; Matthias Schwartz
9. 'Bright reference point of our youth'. Bondy, Podsiad?o, and the Redefinition of the Underground; Alfrun Kliems
PART III: RESHAPING POLITICAL ACTIVISM: BETWEEN REBELLION AND ADJUSTMENT
10. Fallen Vanguards and Vanished Rebels? Political Youth Involvement in Extraordinary Times; Félix Krawatzek
11: 'To serve like a man' - Ukraine's Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change; Sabine Roßmann
12. The Conception of Revolutionary Youth in Maksim Gor'kii's The Mother and Zakhar Prilepin's San'kia; Matthias Meindl
13. 'Polittusovka' - An Alternative Public Space of Young Politicians in Contemporary Russia; Anna Zhelnina
PART IV: CONTESTED AGENCY: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES
14. Youth Cultures in Contemporary Russia: Memory, Politics and Solidarity; Elena Omelchenko and Guzel Sabirova
15. Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia; Gleb Tsipursky
16. Battlefield Internet: Young Russian SNS Users and New-Media State Propaganda;
Vera Zvereva
17. 'Flashy' Pictures: Social Activist Comics and Russian Youth; José Alaniz
18. Youth in the Post-Soviet Space. Is the Central Asian Case Really so Different?; Stefan B. Kirmse