From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How sixties global counterculture came to Moscow

Juliane Fürst

doi:10.4324/9781315150918

From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How sixties global counterculture came to Moscow

Juliane Fürst

University of Bristol

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Moscow was the capital of a country that is itself enormous. This chapter focuses on the phenomenon of counterculture among Soviet youth with two places in Moscow's center that are only a mile apart and situated right within the heart of official power. The first, Maiakovskii Square, affectionately known as the Maiak, is home to an eponymous metro station and a monument to the Russian revolutionary writer, which from its inauguration became a magnet for Moscow's young literati and critically minded youth. The second is the Psichodrom, nickname for a courtyard of Moscow State University on what is called Okhotnyi Riad. The Maiak and the Psichodrom stand for two different groups of countercultural youth. Maiak rose to prominence when the city installed a statue of Vladimir Maiakovskii in 1958, which was commemorated by the Moscow Komsomol with an open-air poetry reading.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties
Subtitle of host publication	Between Protest and Nation-Building
Editors	Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	180-192
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351366113
ISBN (Print)	9781138557321
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315150918
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

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From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How sixties global counterculture came to Moscow. / Fürst, Juliane.
The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building. ed. / Chen Jian; Martin Klimke; Masha Kirasirova; Mary Nolan; Marilyn Young; Joanna Waley-Cohen. Taylor and Francis, 2018. p. 180-192.

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