Explore: Year » 1995

"What is Concealed Will Be Revealed." Kuryokhin and Dugin's Post-Ironic Political Campaign

A moment in Dugin's political campaign in Saint Petersburg, in which Sergey Kuryokhin and Aleksandr Dugin mock liberal democracy—and Yeltsin’s 1993 referendum—on Russian TV.

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"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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Let's Go To War!

The model, writer, singer, and TV personality Natalia Medvedeva (Limonov’s third wife) performs her song “Poedem na voinu!” (Let’s go to war!), a countercultural hymn romanticizing war, violence, and rebellion.

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Issue #1 of “Radek”, 1994

Cover of "Radek" featuring four denuded men in front of the burned White house.

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