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Petrovich, the Soviet everyman, survives post-Soviet Russia in “Kommersant”
A collection of "Petrovich" cartoons by Andrei Bil’zho published in Russia’s “first business newspaper,” “Kommersant.” Bil’zho’s drawings depict a hapless and repulsive comic personage, born and raised in the Soviet era but trying to get his bearings in post-Soviet capitalism.
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“We Are Building Communism!" / "We Are Building a New Russia!”
A 1993 billboard for Moscow’s Peresvet Trading Firm that plays on an existing Soviet-era billboard displayed just above it.
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Parfenov’s “Namedni” as memory work in the 1990s
“Namedni” (Recently), Leonid Parfenov’s project dedicated to recent history, was one of the most successful shows of the 1990s. Eschewing big narrative arcs, the program highlighted the past as a collection of memory sites—in this case, exploring the origins of the “New Russian” in 1991.
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“Field of Wonders”: The post-Soviet people’s show
A clip from the most-watched entertainment show of the 1990s, "Pole chudes [Field of Wonders],” featuring the post-Soviet “narod” (people) of regular folks engaged in a free-flowing relationship with both capitalism and Russia’s Central Television.
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The Black Series from Vagrius
The book series “Contemporary Russian Prose” or the “Black Series,” published by Vagrius—one of post-Soviet Russia’s most successful commercial publishers—made bestsellers out of literary prose.
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Interview with Victor Pelevin
After the launch of Victor Pelevin’s hit novel “Generation P” in 1999, the author set out on a publicity tour in which he behaved as poorly as his own protagonist, Vavilen Tatarsky. And much like his protagonist, he proved that, in post-Soviet Russia, bad behavior sells.
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