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"An invaluable key to reading the cultural salad of today's Russia, useful to students as well as to their teachers. Barbie dolls, detective fiction, raves and the gay scene, tattoos and graffiti, even an Argentine soap opera that advertises a pyramid scheme: "Consuming Russia" is great as a classroom text and as a guidebook to the changing face of popular culture."--James von Geldern, Macalester College
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I Introduction
1. Rereading Russia / Adele Marie Barker
2. The Culture Factory: Theorizing the Popular in the Old and New Russia / Adele Marie Barker
Part II Popular Culture
3. Public Offerings: MMM and the Marketing of Melodrama / Eliot Borenstein
4. Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming Power, Identity, and Aesthetics in Post-Soviet Nightlife / Alexei Yurchak
5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus' and Its Alternatives in Russian Rock Music / Julia P. Friedman and Adam Weiner
6. Popular Children's Culture in Post-Perestroika Russia: Songs of Innocence and Experience Revisited / Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky
7. Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian
Detektiv / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
8. In Search of an Audience: The New Russian Cinema of Reconciliation / Susan Larsen
9. There Are no Rules on Planet Russia: Post-Soviet Spectator Sport / Robert Edelman
10. Saying "Lenin" and Meaning "Party": Subversion and Laughter in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society / Anna Krylova
11. Going to the Dogs: Pet Life in the New Russia / Adele Marie Barker
Part III Sexualities
12. Publicly Queer: Representations of Queer Subjects and Subjectivities in the Absence of Identity / Laurie Essig
13. Queer Performance: "Male" Ballet / Tim Scholl
14. Pornography in Russia / Paul W. Goldschmidt
Part IV Society and Social Artifacts
15. Body Graphics: Tattooing the Fall of Communism / Nancy Condee
16. Communism as Kitsch: Soviet Symbols in Post-Soviet Society / Theresa Sabonis-Chafee
17. From the Toilet to the Museum: Memory and Metamorphosis of Soviet Trash / Svetlana Boym
18. Paranoid Graffiti at Execution Wall: Nationalist Interpretations of Russia's Travail / John Bushnell
19. "Christianity, Antisemitism, Nationalism": Russian Orthodoxy in a Reborn Orthodox Russia / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt
20. Suspending Disbelief: "Cults" and Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia / Eliot Borenstein
Contributors
Index
About the author
Adele Marie Barker, ed.
