Cultural forms of protest in Russia

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on transliteration
Introduction: Genres and genders of protest in Russia’s petrostate
	Notes
	References
Part I Origins and traditions of protest
	1 Fathers, sons, and grandsons: Generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989–2012
		From generation to generation: wine, vinegar, and cocktail
		The sixtiers: the last true believers
		The seventiers: politics without illusions
		The post-Soviet generation: a new turn?
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Note on Transliteration
		References
	2 Dissidents reloaded?: Anti-Putin activists and the Soviet legacy
		‘Old’ and ‘new’ dissenters
		Displaying protests
		Dissent of the dominant, dissent of the dominated
		References
	3 Why ‘two Russias’ are less than ‘United Russia’: Cultural distinctions and political similarities ...
		The intelligentsia and the state: a tradition of ‘stylistic divergences’
		The protest of the ‘successful and well-fed’
		‘Sha Pu Na Na’ vs. ‘Bo Ro Di No’
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		References
	4 Are copycats subversive?: Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment, and  the transformative potential ...
		Bottom-up and top-down movements in Russia
		Copycat movements
		Case selection and sources
		A subversive defence of the Constitution? Strategy-31
		Subversive temperance? The Russian Runs
		Subversive war commemoration? The Immortal Regiment
		Conclusion
		Note and acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
		Interviews
	5 Political consumerism in Russia after 2011
		Introduction
		What is political consumerism?
		State, political consumerism, and nation-building in Russia
		Consumer nationalism and cultural producers in Russia
		Good buy, glamour: welcome, patriotic fashion
		Lifestyles and consumer citizenship
		Political consumerism and popular support
		In lieu of a conclusion
		Notes
		References
	6 Even the toys are demanding free elections: Humour and the politics of creative protest in Russia
		Introduction
		Nano-meetings in the snow
		Setting the toy protest into context: the use of humour  in Russian protests
		What does fun have to do with political protest?
		Conclusions
		References
Part II Artistic and performative forms of protest
	7 Biopolitics, believers, bodily protests: The case of Pussy Riot
		Introduction
		Turning the optics of biopolitical conservatism
		Corporeal protest
		Vulnerable orthodoxy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	8 Hysteria or enjoyment?: Recent Russian actionism
		Snatching Chicken
		Pavlenskii’s Law
		Conclusion
		Author’s note
		Notes
		References
	9 Bleep and ***: Speechless protest
		Mat: the language of protest, or language as protest
		The silence of protest
		Protest on screen, documentary style
		Protest on display: fictional images
		Conclusion: performing protest
		Notes
		References
	10 On the (im)possibility of a third opinion
		The Central Golden Object
		Room One: Tõnismäe culture
		Room Two: kinetics of power
		Room Three: violence
		Room Four: action
		Notes
		References
	11 Performing poetry and protest in the age of digital reproduction
		Avant-garde post–
		Performing the Russian poet: after Prigov
		Embodiment and poetic bodies
		Poets, activists, and digital media
		The limits of digital emancipation
		Notes
		References
	12 When satire does not subvert: Citizen Poet as nostalgia for Soviet dissidence
		Putiniana and the pleasure of recognition
		Political leadership vs. dissenting cultural leadership
		The nostalgic subjectivity of post-Soviet liberalism
		Citizen Poet and kul\'tura
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Index