Showcasing Socialist Flower Power: The World of Soviet Hippies

苏联嬉皮士在很多方面似乎是一个悖论。很少有人，甚至在苏联自己，知道有一个蓬勃发展的嬉皮士社区。从1967年到1991年苏联解体，这个嬉皮士“系统”在苏联帝国的各个城市都有分布。在AHRC“退出社会主义”的资助下，广泛的研究首次进入了这一主题，并将由该项目的PI在专著《混凝土中的花朵》中提出，该专著将于2017年与OUP合作出版。这项研究的一个意想不到的结果是PI Juliane f<e:1>与洛杉矶文德博物馆（Wende Museum）之间的合作，该博物馆为研究过程中出土的许多无价且非常古怪的嬉皮士档案提供了一个家。文德现在正在保护、修复和开放3000多件与苏联嬉皮士文化有关的文物。这笔赠款旨在扩大这一合作，以便于2017年6月举办一场关于苏联嬉皮士运动历史的广泛展览，以纪念其50周年。它不仅展示了文德博物馆拥有的许多有趣的物品，而且还引发了关于反主流文化的性质和普遍性、独裁政权的运作以及东西方之间的相似之处和差异的讨论。它旨在通过展示独特的新材料来吸引新的观众。同时也引起了加州观众的共鸣，因为它唤起了美国六十年代的回忆。许多游客可能都有一段反主流文化的过去。博物馆还将举办一个学习日，苏联嬉皮士运动的参与者将与观众和当地反主流文化的代表见面。伴随展览的工作坊计划是为年轻人量身定制的，旨在突出连续性和变化，例如，不仅展示所有世代都知道叛逆者、局外人和反主流文化，而且还展示这些边缘人对主流文化产生了重大影响。由原始资助“退出”赞助的数字档案将确保感兴趣的观众继续访问展览资料。最后，文德博物馆与Juliane f<s:1> rst博士之间广泛而多层次的合作将为博物馆与学者之间的未来合作提供蓝图，强调研究、存档和展览活动如何富有成效地相互参与和促进。这次展览不仅强调了保存社会“边缘”档案的必要性，还强调了以创新、可访问和可见的方式利用历史资料可以增加学术研究的价值。

Soviet hippies may seem to many a paradox in terms. Very few people, even in the Soviet Union itself, knew that there was a thriving hippie community. The hippie 'sistema' was located in various cities throughout the Soviet empire from 1967 to the very end of the Soviet Union in 1991. Extensive research made possible by the AHRC grant 'Dropping out of Socialism' has made first inroads into this topic and is going to be presented in the monograph 'Flowers Through Concrete' by the PI of this project, forthcoming with OUP in 2017. An unexpected corollary of the research has been the collaboration between the PI Juliane Fürst and the Wende Museum in LA, which offered a home to many of the invaluable and highly eccentric hippie archives unearthed in the course of research. The Wende is now sheltering, restoring and making accessible over 3000 artifacts relating to the Soviet hippie culture. This grant proposes to extend this collaboration in order to facilitate an extensive exhibition on the history of the Soviet hippie movement in June 2017, commemorating its 50th anniversary. It proposes not only to showcase the many interesting items in the possession of the Wende Museum, but also to provoke discussion about the nature and universality of countercultures, the working of dictatorial regimes and the parallels and differences between East and West. It aims to engage new audiences by exhibiting unique and new material. At the same time resonates with California audiences, because of its evocation of the American sixties. Many visitors are likely to have themselves a countercultural past. The museum will also host a study day, in which participants of the Soviet hippie movement will meet with audiences and representatives of local countercultures. The programme of workshops, accompanying the exhibition is tailored to younger people with the aim to highlighting continuity and change, e.g. showing not only that all generations knew rebels, outsiders and countercultures, but also that these marginals left significant impact on the mainstream. A digital archive, sponsored by the original grant 'Dropping out' will ensure continued access to exhibition materials for interested audiences. Finally, the extensive and multi-level collaboration between the Wende Museum and Dr. Juliane Fürst will provide a blueprint for future collaborations between the museum and academics, highlighting how research, archiving and exhibition activities can fruitfully engage with and further each other. The exhibition highlights not only the need to preserve archives' 'on the margin' of societies, but also the value that can be added to academic research by using historical sources in an innovative, accessible and visible manner.