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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Pt. I | Introduction | |
| 1 | Rereading Russia | 3 |
| 2 | The Culture Factory: Theorizing the Popular in the Old and New Russia | 12 |
| Pt. II | Popular Culture | |
| 3 | Public Offerings: MMM and the Marketing of Melodrama | 49 |
| 4 | Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming Power, Identity, and Aesthetics in Post-Soviet Nightlife | 76 |
| 5 | Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus' and Its Alternatives in Russian Rock Music | 110 |
| 6 | Popular Children's Culture in Post-Perestroika Russia: Songs of Innocence and Experience Revisited | 138 |
| 7 | Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian Detektiv | 161 |
| 8 | In Search of an Audience: The New Russian Cinema of Reconciliation | 192 |
| 9 | There Are no Rules on Planet Russia: Post-Soviet Spectator Sport | 217 |
| 10 | Saying "Lenin" and Meaning "Party": Subversion and Laughter in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society | 243 |
| 11 | Going to the Dogs: Pet Life in the New Russia | 266 |
| Pt. III | Sexualities | |
| 12 | Publicly Queer: Representations of Queer Subjects and Subjectivities in the Absence of Identity | 281 |
| 13 | Queer Performance: "Male" Ballet | 303 |
| 14 | Pornography in Russia | 318 |
| Pt. IV | Society and Social Artifacts | |
| 15 | Body Graphics: Tattooing the Fall of Communism | 339 |
| 16 | Communism as Kitsch: Soviet Symbols in Post-Soviet Society | 362 |
| 17 | From the Toilet to the Museum: Memory and Metamorphosis of Soviet Trash | 383 |
| 18 | Paranoid Graffiti at Execution Wall: Nationalist Interpretations of Russia's Travail | 397 |
| 19 | "Christianity, Antisemitism, Nationalism": Russian Orthodoxy in a Reborn Orthodox Russia | 414 |
| 20 | Suspending Disbelief: "Cults" and Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia | 437 |
| Contributors | 463 | |
| Index | 467 |
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David Wardell
reviewed Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev on September 19, 2015
Consuming Russia
This is the end of the Soviet era as seen not from the usual perspective of oligarchs and apparatchiks, but instead what it looked like to the artists, the musicians, the people. It was a wrenching, dislocating time, and this volume collects essays showing how people reacted to it, embracing freedom or fleeing from it. Some of this is solid scholarship--there is a thorough rendering of Russians' embrace of new religions, for example--some of it is more impressionistic. And there is the completely unexpected (the graffiti commemorating a site where Communists were supposedly executed), and the downright surreal (the use of a Mexican telenovela star in scripted programs promoting a massive Ponzi scheme). Perhaps the Ponzi struck me most of all not just because of it is such a classic and sad case of hugely successful mass marketing for a completely fraudulent product, but because of the way the scheme preyed on both the fear of the end of an era and the hopes, in the end dashed for those who "invested", for a new one.
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