Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia

Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Translation
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
	Satire: Russian Perspective
	Cynics, kynics and stiob
	Satire and Myth
	Censorship that isn’t there
	Satire on a Leash
	Satire as Protest
	Concluding remarks
Part I: Satire on a Leash
	Chapter 1: Stand-Up, Jokers and Dual Reality
		The Soviet Context: Estrada and Satiric Writers
		Author-Performer
		New Stand-Up Comedy: Danila Poperechnyi
		The Joker Function and Dual Reality
		References
	Chapter 2: Is Putin Afraid of Memes? Satire on the Runet
		The Internet Samizdat
		Memes as Digital Anekdots
		“Time for a Meme”
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 3: Satire on Post-Soviet TV: From Puppets to Puppets
		The 1990s: Puppets
		The 2000s: Nostalgic Entertainment
		After 2012: The Era of Agitainment
			Dmitrii Kiselev
			Vladimir Solov’ev
			Prozhektorperiskhilton
		References
	Chapter 4: KVN: A TV Show Larger Than Television
		The Context: The Thaw, Samodeiatel’nost’, and Student Theater
		From the Thaw to Perestroika to the 1990s
		Becoming a State Project
		The Main Patron of the Show
		Between Censorship and Propaganda
		Concluding Remarks
		References
Part II: Satire as Protest
	Chapter 5: Rapping the Protest: New Russian Music
		Semen Slepakov
		Vasia Oblomov
		Kasta
		“Terrorizing Rappers”
		Concluding Remarks
		References
	Chapter 6: Transgressing the Mainstream: Camp, Queer and Populism in Russian Visual Culture
		Russian Neo-camp
		Sergei Shnurov and Leningrad: Celebrating the (Russian) Abject
		Little Big: Camp Aesthetics of the Subaltern Empire
		Aleksandr Gudkov: Queering the Mainstream
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 7: The “Poetic” Protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”
		Creating an alternative space: virtuality and participation
		Creating a sense of belonging: community and intertextuality
		Creating a broad reach for criticism: censorship and non-seriousness
		References
	Chapter 8: Political Games of Chance: Monstrations and Their Ludic Tactics
		Monstrations and “Shimmering”
		Games with Chance
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9: Hybrid Political Humor: The New Dissent Art in Putin’s Russia
		From the Soviet Era to the Present
		From Provocation to Participation: Aesthetical Micropractices
		The Climate of Hybrid Humor
		Concluding Remarks
		References
Index