Problems of Leisure and Glasnost

  • The new liberalization or openness (glasnost) in the USSR has created legal opportunities that some people are using to combat liberalization itself. Among certain young people, there evidently exists a certain nostalgia for the past, for a strong master, for a mixture of patriarchal nationalism and totalitarian traditions. Italian is similar to what Erich FROMM once called the >flight from freedom<, whereby certain social groups see democracy as a threat to their set traditions, and their way of life and security. The emergence of ultrapatriotic groups of >muscular socialists< and neofascists in Soviet society within the last few years shows the complexity of social change in a society like the USSR, and the problems that Mikhail Gorbachov has to face in implementing his policies of perestroika (restructuring), glasnost, and democratization. How this situation touches on such leisure activities as heavy metal music and adaptation of punk dress and lifestyles is examined.

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Author:Jim Riordan
Parent Title (English):Leisure Studies Vol. 7 (No. 2, May 1988), pp. 173-185.
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:1988
Release Date:2014/01/28
Format:PDF-scan to download
IdNo:Riordan_J_1988
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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