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Exciting work. Based on a breathtakingly wide research base, Tsipursky combines multiple archives with extensive interviews from former participants in cultural programs, from the late 1940s to early 1960s, to unlock private memories, photographs, and other rare materials to give a unique perspective on post-Stalinist youth culture. Lynn Mally, University of California, Irvine

Exciting work. Based on a breathtakingly wide research base, Tsipursky combines multiple archives with extensive interviews from former participants in cultural programs, from the late 1940s to early 1960s, to unlock private memories, photographs, and other rare materials to give a unique perspective on post-Stalinist youth culture. --Lynn Mally, University of California, Irvine Fascinating, original, and superbly researched. The emphasis on state-sponsored leisure culture is particularly important because it opens a window in the interactions between the state and 'ordinary' Soviet youth, that is, those who were not members of the intelligentsia. --Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont An invaluable resource for cultural studies students who are interested in the Soviet period. --H-Net Reviews Exciting work. Based on a breathtakingly wide research base, Tsipursky combines multiple archives with extensive interviews from former participants in cultural programs, from the late 1940s to early 1960s, to unlock private memories, photographs, and other rare materials to give a unique perspective on post-Stalinist youth culture. Lynn Mally, University of California, Irvine Fascinating, original, and superbly researched. The emphasis on state-sponsored leisure culture is particularly important because it opens a window in the interactions between the state and ordinary Soviet youth, that is, those who were not members of the intelligentsia. Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont

Exciting work. Based on a breathtakingly wide research base, Tsipursky combines multiple archives with extensive interviews from former participants in cultural programs, from the late 1940s to early 1960s, to unlock private memories, photographs, and other rare materials to give a unique perspective on post-Stalinist youth culture. --Lynn Mally, University of California, Irvine Fascinating, original, and superbly researched. The emphasis on state-sponsored leisure culture is particularly important because it opens a window in the interactions between the state and 'ordinary' Soviet youth, that is, those who were not members of the intelligentsia. --Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont An invaluable resource for cultural studies students who are interested in the Soviet period. --H-Net Reviews Exciting work. Based on a breathtakingly wide research base, Tsipursky combines multiple archives with extensive interviews from former participants in cultural programs, from the late 1940s to early 1960s, to unlock private memories, photographs, and other rare materials to give a unique perspective on post-Stalinist youth culture. Lynn Mally, University of California, Irvine Fascinating, original, and superbly researched. The emphasis on state-sponsored leisure culture is particularly important because it opens a window in the interactions between the state and ordinary Soviet youth, that is, those who were not members of the intelligentsia. Denise Youngblood, University of Vermont

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Gleb Tsipursky is assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University.

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