Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia 1st Edition by Birgit Beumers 1317352637 9781317352631

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: dialectics of defeat

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 of non-hierarchical movements

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