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Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do�"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car."

From Time Magazine Archive

Eyewitnesses provided one useful clue: the gunmen wore the narrow trousers, oversized jackets and ducktail haircuts of stilyagi, the Russian version of zoot-suiters.

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There is no discernible ferment among the literati, and even the young people are afraid to wear the zoot-suit stilyagi clothes popular elsewhere in Eastern Europe.*

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Komsomol zealots break up cafe brawls, keep a sour eye out for stilyagi and other "nonconformists."

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In fifteen minutes he was hemmed in by a dozen or so and had about decided he'd better make his excuses and circulate around making himself available to the stilyagi outfit.

From Combat by Reynolds, Mack