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“Musical Ring” with guest star Sergei Kuryokhin, 1987

This 1987 episode of Musical Ring captures late-Soviet television's attempt to integrate avant-garde musician and professional trickster Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) into mainstream discourse, simultaneously showcasing the program's role in legitimizing experimental music during perestroika. 

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An “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club

This official “initiative group survey” from the Leningrad Rock Club was completed by Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) of the band Pop Mekhanika sometime in the 1980s.

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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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Lenin Was a Mushroom

An excerpt from the famous episode of the TV show "Piatoe koleso" (The Fifth Wheel) in which the experimental musician and performer Sergey Kuryokhin (1954-1996) nearly convinced Soviet audiences that "Lenin was a mushroom."

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Romantics and Fascists

Experimental musician and political provocateur Sergei Kuryokhin (1954-1996) explains his definition of fascism and his distinction between mainstream postmodernism and a postmodernism of protest.

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"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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