CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Haiduchok, Marta |
|---|---|
| Title | Anti-political Counterculture in Soviet Lviv: Samvydav Skrynia in Post-1968 |
| Summary | This thesis attempts to apply the optics of anti-political thinking to the countercultural space of Soviet Lviv through the case study of the samvydav “Skrynia.” It does so through the analysis of the activity of the group of nonconformist youth who held strong personal connections with the circle of Ukrainian dissidents. Through the application of elements from cultural, social, and intellectual history, it aims to prove that the development of the counterculture in Soviet Ukraine of the late 1960s – early 1970s aligned with similar trajectories in the other countries of the Socialist Bloc and that even despite the lack of the plurality of the nonconformists under the Soviet regime, the paths of the resistance were very different and varied based on the generations and the exposure to the international influences. Through the study of the external influences, a close reading of the samvydav, and the analysis of the materials from the KGB investigations, this thesis contributes to the more significant part of the scholarship that attempts to undermine the "dissident myth" – the idea that those were the dissidents, who played the decisive role in the anti-Soviet opposition. By doing so, this work offers new approaches to studying the circles that were rarely studied together before – the countercultures and the dissidents. |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs; Siefert, Marsha. |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/haiduchok_marta.pdf |
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