1990 Reports

Soviet Hippies

Bushnell, John

In 1987 a faction of hippies calling themselves the Initiative Group of Hippies of Moscow, Kiev, Lvov and Other Cities of the USSR produced a brief account of the Soviet counterculture, “The Ideology of Soviet Hippies (1967-1987).”" The manuscript was a product of its times, evidence both of a hippie revival and of the politicization for which its authors appealed.