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| Author: | Roberts, K. Povall, S. Tholen, J. |
| Title: | Farewell to the intelligentsia: political transformation and changing forms of leisure consumption in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe |
| Journal: | Leisure Studies
2005 : APR, VOL. 24:2, p. 115-135 |
| Index terms: | Leisure Consumption Transition economies Eastern Europe |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper refers to evidence from studies of young adults conducted in eight different ex-communist countries from 1993 onwards. However, it is primarily based on data gathered in Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia in 2002. The evidence is used to chart the disintegration of the intelligentsia (henceforth as: ig.) strata consolidated under communism. The evidence shows that under post-communism higher education graduates continue to be distinguished by their consumption of high culture. However, their occupations (here as: occups.) are more diverse in terms of work and market situations. Many, especially those in the more intellectual occups., have been impoverished, state subsidies for their lifestyles (as: l-sts.) having been withdrawn or reduced, making their l-sts. more expensive. The better-off are now even more exposed to and involved in the new consumer cultures. This paper explains how the cessation of the ig.'s reproduction as a lifestyle group, and the spread of commercial leisure, will have contributed to the post-1989/91 decline in political interest and activity among young people in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe. |
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