«Моральная паника» как механизм развития ряда молодежных сообществ советского Союза и России

The article deals with the origination of "moral panics" (S. Cohen's term) in the USSR and Russia from 1970 to the 2010s. Measures against youth subcultures actually stimulated their quantitative growth and qualitative changes. Mass media played a leading role in the process.