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Urban Leisure Culture in Post-Stalin Russia

Stability as a Social Problem

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ID20074518
AuthorsJohn Bushnell (corresponding author)
Year2019
Pages58-86
Publication date2019-07-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSoviet Society and Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429307157-5
OpenAlexW2956949170
ISBN9780429307157
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Urban leisure culture has changed, but more slowly than Soviet society; the distinguishing features of urban Russian leisure culture are its stability and relative autonomy, not its variability. Traditional urban leisure activities derived from peasant culture and peasant leisure involved primarily personal interaction with other peasants. The urban work schedule—with the day partitioned into distinct blocks of working and nonworking time—facilitated the emergence of attitudes that underlay the urban leisure culture. The forced industrialization that began in the late 1920s altered Russian society and the lives of the urban classes in countless ways, but had no impact at all on urban leisure behavior. Regular participation in nontraditional leisure activities, in other words, though substantial, is confined to a limited part of the urban population. The foregoing outline of the development of leisure culture in urban Russia has left some important assumptions unexamined and has ignored nuances that become apparent when one looks at age-specific and gender-specific variations in leisure behavior

Economic system · Economics · Political science · Sociology · Social and Behavioral Studies

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year0,23
Citation span2013 - 2019 (7)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2
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