A clip from the talk show "Tema [Theme]," Vladislav Listyev's (1956-1995) major post-Soviet project after the 1991 end of “Vzgliad.” This episode centers on racism in Russia and includes guest Dzheims (James) Lloydovich Patterson (1933-), who played an interracial baby in the classic Stalin-era musical comedy Circus (1936).

The winter 1992 opening broadcast of the amateur variety and improv contest show “KVN” (“the Club of the Jolly and Resourceful”). Filmed just a few months after the dissolution of the USSR, the episode features former Soviet university teams lamenting the new national borders appearing all around them.

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

An excerpt from the 1992 season of the amateur variety improv competition show, “KVN,” in which an Israeli team of recent Russian émigrés competes against their former compatriots in Moscow.