An undated 1990s-era piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Mal’chishnik (Stag Party).

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.

This 1992 music video for Lyube's “Stop Fooling Around, America!” uses retro newsreel footage and animation to demand Alaska’s return to Russia, deploying folksy humor to advance post-Soviet neo-imperialism. 

From a single memorial inscription for deceased Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi (1962-1990), an entire wall of graffiti sprang up, forming an enduring pilgrimage site and evolving canvas for generations of fans.

Novyi Vzgliad authors write some of the most scandalous and incendiary political commentaries of the 1990s, producing new forms of political irony. Iaroslav Mogutin and Eduard Limonov turn violence into a paradoxical source of identity. The main artifact here–an article by Mogutin–exemplifies this process.

Two early direct actions organized by young members of the National Bolshevik Party combined self-martyrdom with totalitarian stiob.