Subcultures in Sztálinvárosban Cover Image

A Késdobáló és a jampecek. Szubkultúrák Sztálinvárosban
Subcultures in Sztálinvárosban

Author(s): Sándor Horváth
Subject(s): History
Published by: KORALL Társadalomtörténeti Egyesület
Keywords: social history; Hungary; 1950’s; Sztálinváros; Dunaújváros; socialist city; planned economy; way of life; heavy industry; social deviances; social anomalies; youth subculture; alcoholism

Summary/Abstract: Sztálinváros, the new socialist heavy industry model town was built from 1950. The Communist Party and the planners considered it as a model for new socialist towns and a new type of socialist men, supposing the two would go together. In reality people arrived from almost all parts of Hungary, and had difficulties forming a community with male overpopulation, and showed many deviant phenomena. The study explores how deviant behaviour flourished opposed to standard socialist ideas and morals, through the life of pubs and the youth subcultures of the model city.

  • Issue Year: 2000
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 119-136
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Hungarian