Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia (Hardcover)

Introduction, Alexander Etkind Part I: Origins and Traditions of Protest 1. Fathers, Sons, and Grandsons: Generational Changes and Political Trajectory of Russia, 1989?2012, Vladimir Gel'man 2. Dissidents Reloaded? Anti-Putin Activists and the Soviet Legacy, Valentina Parisi 3. Why ‘Two Russias’ are Less than ‘United Russia’. Cultural Distinctions and Political Similarities: Dialectics of Defeat, Ilya Kalinin 4. Are Copycats Subversive? Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment and the Transformative Potential of Non-Hierarchical Movements, Mischa Gabowitsch 5. Political Consumerism in Russia after 2011, Olga Gurova 6. Even the Toys are Demanding Free Elections: Humour and the Politics of Creative Protest in Russia, Jennifer G. Mathers Part II: Artistic and Performative Forms of Protest 7. Biopolitics, Believers, Bodily Protests: The Case of Pussy Riot, Alexandra Yatsyk 8. Hysteria or Enjoyment? Recent Russian Actionism, Jonathan Brooks Platt 9. Bleep and ***: Speechless Protest, Birgit Beumers 10. On the (Im)Possibility of a Third Opinion, Kristina Norman 11. Performing Poetry and Protest in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Marijeta Bozovic 12. When Satire Does Not Subvert: Citizen Poet as Nostalgia for Soviet Dissidence, Sanna Turoma