This study is an investigation of the basic ideas and practices of skinheads in Belarus as a local variety of the worldwide youth counterculture. There are several themes that are presented within the framework of this paper: the origin and development of skinheads’ style, neo-Nazi ideas’ orientation of the skinhead style proponents and the genesis of skinhead gangs in Belarus. Special attention has been focused on interrelation of youth counterculture with right-wing radicalism. The author also touches upon the basic ideas which determine skinheads’ Weltan-schauung and practices to support their collective identity.

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