The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent role models, dissident counter-cultures or artistic breakings of taboo.

Introduction; Matthias Schwarz and Heike Winkel PART I: RECONSIDERING GENERATIONAL CHANGE1. The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Adolescence in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture; Catriona Kelly2. Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe; Ken Roberts3. Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism; Herwig Reiter and Christine Steiger4. Revival Without Nostalgia. The Dizel' Movement, Serbian Nineties Cultural Trauma and Globalized Youth Cultures; Jovana Papovi? and Astrea Pejovi?5. Symptom of the Loser and the Melancholy of the Post-Soviet Generation; Tamara HundorovaPART II: POPULAR BELONGINGS: SUBCULTURAL PLACES AND GLOBALIZED SPACES6. 'Rap on Rap is Sacred': The Appropriation of Hip Hop in the Czech Republic; Anna Oravcová7. Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion. Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism; Dominik Antonowicz, Rados?aw Kossakowski and Tomasz Szlendak8. Everything Feels Bad. Figurations of the Self in Contemporary Eastern European Literature; Matthias Schwartz9. 'Bright reference point of our youth'. Bondy, Podsiad?o, and the Redefinition of the Underground; Alfrun KliemsPART III: RESHAPING POLITICAL ACTIVISM: BETWEEN REBELLION AND ADJUSTMENT10. Fallen Vanguards and Vanished Rebels? Political Youth Involvement in Extraordinary Times; Félix Krawatzek11: 'To serve like a man' - Ukraine's Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change; Sabine Roßmann12. The Conception of Revolutionary Youth in Maksim Gor'kii's The Mother and Zakhar Prilepin's San'kia; Matthias Meindl13. 'Polittusovka' - An Alternative Public Space of Young Politicians in Contemporary Russia; Anna ZhelninaPART IV: CONTESTED AGENCY: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES14. Youth Cultures in Contemporary Russia: Memory, Politics and Solidarity; Elena Omelchenko and Guzel Sabirova15. Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia; Gleb Tsipursky16. Battlefield Internet: Young Russian SNS Users and New-Media State Propaganda;Vera Zvereva17. 'Flashy' Pictures: Social Activist Comics and Russian Youth; José Alaniz18. Youth in the Post-Soviet Space. Is the Central Asian Case Really so Different?; Stefan B. Kirmse