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Stilyagi (Russian: стиляги, IPA: [sʲtʲɪˈlʲæɡʲɪ], lit. "stylish, style hunters") were members of a youth counterculture from the late 1940s until the early 1960s in the Soviet Union.
May 31, 2018 · The Stilyagi were Soviet Russia's youth counterculture during the 1950s who were obsessed with Western youth culture music and fashion.
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Stilyagi (Russian: Стиляги, also known as Hipsters in the English release) is a 2008 Russian romantic jukebox musical film directed by Valery Todorovsky and starring Anton Shagin and Oksana Akinshina.
Dec 10, 2015 · The stilyagi, or "style hunters" were basically the 1950s Soviet version of today’s hipsters: mostly in their teens and 20s, the stilyagi, stood out with their trendy, often loud clothing.
Jun 30, 2017 · Stilyagi (1940s-80s) The term Stilyagi, often translated as hipsters, dandies or beatniks, is the name of the first counterculture group from the Soviet Union.
This period is also remarkable by the emergence of Soviet youth culture, or, more precisely, “subculture” of so-called stilyagi (literally “stylehunters”). They were urban youth of different class origins, obsessed with Western, mainly American fashion, music and dances.
STILIAGI. A Soviet youth subculture that emerged in the late 1940s and extended into the early 1960s. The term stiliagi first appeared in the Soviet press in 1949 to provide a negative characterization of young men who pursued what they believed to be Western models of behavior, leisure, clothing, and dance styles.
