The pernicious passions of the population of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. The charm of vice
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The pernicious passions of the population of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. The charm of vice
9.99 €
Behavior that is not accepted by society or the law exists in any society. The problems of drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution and other harmful passions are part of mass culture and the subject of scientific study. The book is devoted to asocial and unconventional forms of free pastime of the residents of Petrograd-Leningrad in the 1920s. This period is not chosen by chance. The Civil War, the "red" and "white" terror, famine and typhus epidemics, which caused the death of millions of people, were replaced in March 1921 by a new economic policy - the NEP, which significantly affected the culture of...
The book is saturated with texts of that time to more fully convey the "spirit of the era", to let the reader "hear" the voices of contemporaries of the events described. The authors were attracted not so much by the struggle against certain social vices as by the nature of their spread in the leisure sphere, the motivation of consumers of various types of deviant leisure and the infrastructure of its offer.
The book is saturated with texts of that time to more fully convey the "spirit of the era", to let the reader "hear" the voices of contemporaries of the events described. The authors were attracted not so much by the struggle against certain social vices as by the nature of their spread in the leisure sphere, the motivation of consumers of various types of deviant leisure and the infrastructure of its offer.
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