Flowers breaking the asphalt. Traveling to Soviet Hippuccia. Fyurst Yu.

Julian Führst proposes to make a trip to the underground world of Soviet hippies, who created a version of Western counter -culture in the USSR, adapted to living conditions in the society of late socialism. This is not only the exciting history of the formation and survival of the hippies communities, which were pursued by the police and combatants, were placed in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who saw symptoms of schizophrenia in manifestations of non -conformism, but also a story about how the world of hippies and the world of Soviet everyday life entered a forced dialogue, paradoxically Combining well with each other. Ultimately, not the KGB, but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s laid the end of Hip Pupidia in the Soviet Union.

Considering the phenomenon of hippies in the context of the study of the transnational youth culture and globalization processes of the 1960-1970s, the author shows how the hippies were united in the very heart of the Soviet establishment, creating an impressive network (“system”) with complex The customs and rituals that allowed her to exist for more than two decades. The study is based on more than a hundred interviews, declassified documents of special services and materials from private archives that have long remained inaccessible.

Julian Fürst-historian, head of the Department of Communism and Society in the "Leibniz-Center" of modern history (Potsdam).