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The Making of an Anti-Bourgeois Hero

Excerpt from an early episode (the second) of a new version of the popular talk show Vzgliad, co-hosted by Aleksandr Liubimov and Sergey Bodrov Jr., which aired weekly on the TV channel ORT in 1996-1999.

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Megapolis-Ekspress: Urban Exoticism and National Pride

Igor Dudinsky takes over the magazine Megapolis-ekspress and turns it into an extreme and surreal parody of the lowest and most excessively sensationalist forms of Western tabloids.

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Transylvania is Bothering You (On Radio 101 FM)

The cult radio program Transilvania bespokoit (Transilvania is bothering you) creates an alternative musical canon and produces a new nationalist counterpublic.

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Novikov's New Russian Classicism: Pop Culture, Fashion, and Totalitarianism

Timur Novikov’s essay and manifesto “The New Russian Classicism.”

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the eXile: Bespredel for Expats

A selection of articles from the English-language magazine the eXile, which combined gonzo journalism and styob and provided unique reporting on post-Soviet Russia, while at the same time fetishizing the 1990s lawlessness or bespredel and the Westerners’ exploitation of Russia (sexual and otherwise) that it itself denounced and condemned.

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Stalin, Beria, Gulag: Natsboly against Gaidar and Mikhalkov

Two of the early direct actions organized by the young members of the NBP that combined self-martyrdom and totalitarian styob.

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