Punk in the Permafrost Subculture and Everyday Life in the Provinces

Punk came into being in London and New York in the 1970s. As with any youth culture, it involves a specific form of self-expression and protest. How differently these forms must turn out when they transplanted from global centres to a place on the edge of civilization, to Vorkuta, in Russia's far north, a city that emerged from a Stalinist labour camp and has been marked by a dramatic decline since the end of the Soviet Union.