The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture (Oxford Handbooks)

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The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture
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Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Volume Editors
Contributors
Introduction
1. Theoretical Problems of Soviet Underground Culture
PART I: PRECURSORS
	2. Тhe Birth of Soviet Underground Culture in the 1930s
	3. OBERIU and the Conversations of the Lipavsky Circle
	4. Mikhail Kuzmin and the Underground
	5. The Soviet Literary Underground during World War II
	6. Between Modernism and the Underground During the Thaw: A Look at “Transitional Poets”
Part II: Institutions
	7. Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience: Practices in the Late Soviet Underground
	8. Infrastructures of Soviet Underground Culture
	9. The Voices of Samizdat and Magnitizdat
	10. Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution: Late Soviet Underground Abroad
	11. “In-​Betweeners”: Navigating Between Official and Nonofficial Cultures
	12. “Grey Zones” Between Official and Unofficial Cultures: Institutional Diversity, Klub-​81, and (Many) Others
Part III: Mapping
	13. The Ukrainian Underground: Aesthetics, Resistance, and Performance
	14. Nearly Underground in the Near-​Abroad: Outliers in Soviet Baltic Culture
	15. Belarusian Underground Culture
	16. The Fergana School of Poetry: In Search of a Postcolonial Subject
	17. Unofficial Art Outside Moscow and Leningrad
	18. West-​and East-​European Sources and Contexts for the Late-Soviet Underground
	19. Jewish Underground Culture in the Soviet Union
	20. Queer Culture(s)
	21. Dissident Feminism and Its Place in Soviet Women’s History
PART IV: FORMS AND MEDIA
	22. Performative Practices and Life-​Creation
	23. “Here, Performance Art Is Performance Art”: The “Appearance” of Performance Art in Soviet Subculture
	24. Soviet Rock Carnival: Times and Traditions
	25. The Experimental Sounds of Russian Conceptualism: From Historical Musical Avant-​Garde to Cultural Underground(s)
	26. Underground Visual Arts: Photography, Film, Photo-​Based Conceptualism
Part V: Lifeworlds
	27. GULAG Testimony Between Pluto and Orpheus
	28. The 1950s: A Phase of Polarization
	29. The Lianozovo School
	30. Malaya Sadovaya in the History of Leningrad Unofficial Culture
	31. Helenuctism and Leningrad’s Unofficial Culture
	32. The Urbanites and the New Existentialism
	33. The Neo-​Futurists
	34. The Ultimate Underground Classic: Venedikt Erofeev and Moscow-​Petushki
	35. Brodsky and His Circles
	36. The Leningrad School of Neo-​Modernism
	37. “Gazanevshchina”: Experimental (Life) Artists of Leningrad
	38. Late-​Soviet Occulture: Evgeny Golovin and the Yuzhinsky Circle
	39. Moscow Conceptualism
	40. Young Conceptualists
	41. The Circle of Metarealist Poets
	42. Arkady Dragomoshchenko and Leningrad Cultural Underground
	43. Timur Novikov and the New Artists
	44. Neo-​Primitivist Art and Lifestyle: The Mitki and Others
Index