"Only the Wildest and Craziest": Kuryokhin's Neo-Avant-Garde on the Russian Radio
An episode of Kuryokhin’s radio program “Vasha liubimaia sobaka [Your favorite dog],” also known as “Nasha malen’kaia rybka [Our little fish],” aka “Russkii liudoed [Russian cannibal].”
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Fascist Fashion Between Counterculture and Mainstream
Images from a photo shoot from the Polushkin Brothers’ Fash-Fashion collection, which alluded to both queer and fascist aesthetics. Images in the series appeared, respectively, in an ad for Dr. Martens in the lifestyle magazine “Ptiuch,” and as an example of the countercultural aesthetics of the National Bolshevik Party in the pages of its press organ, “Limonka.”
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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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