Juliane Fürst is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Stalin's Last Generation: Soviet Post-War Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism (2010) and editor of Late Stalinist Russia: Society between Reconstruction and Reinvention (2006) and Dropping out of Socialism: The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc (2017). Her current research is on the hippie movement in the late Soviet Union. She has widely published on late socialist life and culture and underground and youth movements.