Leningrad's Saigon: A Space of Negative Freedom

作者: Elena Zdravomyslova

DOI: 10.2753/RSH1061-1983500102

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摘要: Soviet society of the Brezhnev years—because it had lost rigidity totalitarianism but not yet abandoned collective consciousness communism—bred both political/ideological dissidence and a kind creative "dropping out." Interviews reveal how, in 1970s, Leningrad's Saigon Cafe offered space for other misfits to experience negative freedom by providing an arena free pressure from state larger conform.