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Antikommunismus als Bindeglied: Computerspiel-Piraten auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs am Ende des Kalten Krieges

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2021
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Albert, G. J. (2021). Antikommunismus als Bindeglied: Computerspiel-Piraten auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs am Ende des Kalten Krieges. Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, 2021, 245–266.

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This essay focuses on the role of ideology and politics in an under-researched 1980s youth culture: the »crackers«, a transnational subculture active in a number of Western countries and consisting of male teenagers who competed with each other in removing copy protection from commercial computer games. Even though the crackers presented themselves as largely apolitical, a prominent trait of their discourses and self-presentation was a hyperbolic anticommunism, fuelled by contemporary popular culture. The essay analyses the anticommun

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  • Albert, Gleb J

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2021

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245

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266

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Anticommunism, cold war history, cold war culture, home computers, software piracy, youth cultures, popular culture

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German

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0944-629X

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Albert, G. J. (2021). Antikommunismus als Bindeglied: Computerspiel-Piraten auf beiden Seiten des Eisernen Vorhangs am Ende des Kalten Krieges. Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, 2021, 245–266.

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