The World Made of Plastic Has Won
Egor Letov performs his song “Moia oborona” (My defense), during his “concert in the hero city Leningrad,” part of Grazhdanskaia oborona’s 1994 tour Russkii proryv (Russian breakthrough).
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Mumiy Troll's Breakthrough “Utekai (Take Off)" Becomes the 1997 Song of the Year
Mumiy Troll’s 1997 breakthrough song “Utekai” (Take off) displayed the combination of surrealism, dark humor, and provincial romanticism that defined the band’s trademark style.
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“Stalin, Beria, Gulag!”: The Natsboly Oppose Gaidar and Mikhalkov
Two early direct actions organized by young members of the National Bolshevik Party combined self-martyrdom with totalitarian stiob.
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Soviet identity and Jewish Emigration on "KVN"
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.
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Soviet Engineers become Post-Soviet Aristocrats on TV
"Chto? Gde? Kogda?” (What? Where? When?) goes through an aristocratic overhaul and becomes an "intellectual casino.”
View ArtifactChikatilo Trial (Draft)
snippet of BBC footage of trial; photograph of Chikatilo at the trial
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