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Political youth organisations, music and national identity in contemporary Russia
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Abstract This article analyses the relationship between political youth organisations, music and national identity in contemporary Russia. It focuses on four of the most representative political youth groups present in the city of St. Petersburg – the Young Guard, the National Bolsheviks, the Movement Agains... view more
This article analyses the relationship between political youth organisations, music and national identity in contemporary Russia. It focuses on four of the most representative political youth groups present in the city of St. Petersburg – the Young Guard, the National Bolsheviks, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), and Oborona [Defence] – and describes their conceptualisation of post-Soviet Russianness, as captured through an analysis of their lyrics. The main contribution of this empirical study is the detection of convergences and divergences with regard to the national identity issue characterising youth organisations that position themselves differently in the Russian political spectrum.... view less
Keywords
Russia; civil society; national identity; collective identity; social cohesion; youth organization; social movement; music; youth culture; ideology; post-communist society
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Sociology of the Youth, Sociology of Childhood
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
cultural trauma
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 39-56
Journal
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 6 (2014) 2
Issue topic
Interdisciplinary Analysis of Post-Socialist Societies
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works