Soviet men, clothing and appearance in Leningrad in the 1950s and 1960s.
This article aims to discuss the conversations around men's clothing and appearance in Leningrad during the 1950s and 1960s. In the early 1950s, fashion became an important ideological issue in the Soviet Union. The policy of isolationism of late Stalinism alongside the rise of youth subculture stil...
| Published in: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 673 - 691 |
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