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.

An episode from the TV program "Tainy veka" (Mysteries of the century), hosted by Yuri Vorobyovsky and Alexander Dugin. One of the first examples of post-truth on Russian television.

During a 1992 “encounter” with the émigré writer Eduard Limonov at the concert hall in Moscow’s Ostankino TV studios (a common genre during perestroika), a young "neformal" (alternative kid) in the audience suggests creating a subculture made up of young “limonovians.”

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).

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.

snippet of BBC footage of trial; photograph of Chikatilo at the trial