Мальчики-мажоры карабахской войны: жизненные истории военной молодёжи [ChildsoldiersoftheKarabakhWar: Life Stories of a Militarised “ Youth ”].

The article deals with young veterans of the Karabakh War (1991-1994). It is focused on ordinary teenagers whose lives became part of warfare. The harsh, shocking hardships they experienced during the war are far from being named “youth culture of leisure” (that is to say youth sub/contra culture as a social phenomenon, rather than biological age scale). It seems that those adolescents have skipped a stage of their lives. The article touches upon the young veterans’ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) syndrom and how they try to overcome it. Some of them are still traumatized by the consequences of war after more than a decade. Some have undergone identity-transformations that affect their present life trajectories.