Limits of Westernization during Cultural Détente in Provincial Society of Soviet Ukraine: A View from Below.

Using the personal diaries of young people from "provincial" towns and cities of Soviet Ukraine, this essay illustrates the obvious limits of Westernization during the cultural détente of the 1970s in Soviet provincial society. The narratives of the personal diaries, writen during the 1970s and 80s, demonstrate that Soviet young people still shared the same communist ideological discourse, internalized it, imagined and perceived the outside world through the communist ideological "discursive lenses" and constructed their own identity, using the same communist ideological discursive elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]