The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture

Author:   Mark Lipovetsky (Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages, Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University) ,  Maria Engström (Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University) ,  Tomáš Glanc (Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Zurich) ,  Ilja Kukuj (Coordinator for Russian Language Studies, Coordinator for Russian Language Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
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Pages:   1080
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
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In 1932, the Central Committee of the Communist Party issued the resolution ""On the Restructuring of Literary and Arts Organizations."" This resolution put an end to the coexistence of aesthetically different groups and associations of writers and artists that had been common during the 1920s, and instead, led to the establishment of the monopoly of Socialist Realism in 1934. Ironically, this resolution unwittingly created a rich literary and artistic production of underground intellectuals, known as the Soviet underground, during an era of political and aesthetic censorship in the Soviet Union. The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture is the first comprehensive English-language volume covering a history of Soviet artistic and literary underground. In forty-four chapters, an international group of leading scholars introduce readers to a web of subcultures within the underground, highlight the culture achievements of the Soviet underground from the 1930s through the 1980s, emphasize the multimediality of this cultural phenomenon, and situate the study of underground literary texts and artworks into their broader theoretical, ideological, and political contexts. The volume presents readers with several approaches to mapping the underground that include chapters on nonconformist cultures in Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic countries, Central Asia, and provincial cities of Russian Federation. Finally, the volume also provides an analysis of groups shaped around religious and cultural identity, as well as queer and feminist underground circles.

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Author:   Mark Lipovetsky (Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages, Professor at the Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University) ,  Maria Engström (Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University) ,  Tomáš Glanc (Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Zurich) ,  Ilja Kukuj (Coordinator for Russian Language Studies, Coordinator for Russian Language Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.30cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 25.70cm
Weight:   1.882kg
ISBN:  

9780197508213


ISBN 10:   0197508219
Pages:   1080
Publication Date:   29 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments About the Volume Editors Contributors Introduction 1. Theoretical Problems of Soviet Underground Culture Mark Lipovetsky, Tomá%s Glanc, Maria Engström, Ilja Kukuj, and Klavdia Smola Part I: Precursors 2. The Birth of Soviet Underground Culture in the 1930s Maya Vinokour 3. OBERIU and the Conversations of the Lipavsky Circle Eugene Ostashevsky 4. Mikhail Kuzmin and the Underground Nikolai Bogomolov 5. The Soviet Literary Underground during World War II Polina Barskova 6. Between Modernism and the Underground During the Thaw: A Look at ""Transitional Poets"" Massimo Maurizio Part II: Institutions 7. Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience: Practices in the Late Soviet Underground Dirk Uffelmann 8. Infrastructures of Soviet Underground Culture Valentina Parisi 9. The Voices of Samizdat and Magnitizdat Ann Komaromi 10. Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution: Late Soviet Underground Abroad Yasha Klots 11. ""In-Betweeners"": Navigating Between Official and Nonofficial Cultures Ainsley Morse 12. ""Grey Zones"" Between Official and Unofficial Cultures: Institutional Diversity, Klub-81, and (Many) Others Ilya Kukulin Part III: Mapping 13. The Ukrainian Underground: Resistance and Performance Tamara Hundorova 14. Nearly Underground in the Near-Abroad: Outliers in Soviet Baltic Culture Mark Allen Svede and K=arlis V=erdi,n%s 15. Belarusian Underground Culture Tatsiana Astrouskaya 16. The Fergana School of Poetry: In Search of a Postcolonial Subject Kirill Korchagin 17. Unofficial Art Outside Moscow and Leningrad Tatiana Sokhareva 18. West- and East-European Sources and Contexts for the Late-Soviet Underground Tomá%s Glanc 19. Jewish Underground Culture in the Soviet Union Klavdia Smola 20. Queer Culture(s) Vitaly Chernetsky and Devin McFadden 21. Dissident Feminism and Its Place in Soviet Women's History Alla Mitrofanova Part IV: Forms and Media 22. Performative Practices and Life-Creation Mark Lipovetsky 23. ""Here, Performance Art is Performance Art"": The ""Appearance"" of Performance Art in Soviet Subculture Sylvia Sasse 24. Soviet Rock Carnival: Times and Traditions Mark Yoffe 25. The Experimental Sounds of Russian Conceptualism: From Historical Musical Avant-garde to Cultural Underground(s) Dennis Ioffe 26. Underground Visual Arts: Photography, Film, Photo-Based Conceptualism Olesya Turkina Part V: Lifeworlds 27. GULAG Testimony Between Pluto and Orpheus Ilya Kalinin 28. The 1950s: A Phase of Polarization Ilja Kukuj 29. The Lianozovo School Mikhail Pavlovets 30. Malaya Sadovaya in the History of Leningrad Unofficial Culture Ainsley Morse 31. Khelenuktism and Leningrad's Unofficial Culture Stanislav Savickij 32. The Urbanites and the New Existentialism Anastasiya Osipova 33. The Neo-Futurists Kirill Korchagin 34. The Ultimate Underground Classic: Venedikt Erofeev and Moscow-Petushki Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov, and Ilya Simanovsky 35. Brodsky and His Circles Denis Akhapkin 36. The Leningrad School of Neo-Modernism Josephine von Zitzewitz 37. ""Gazanevshchina"": Experimental (Life) Artists of Leningrad Klavdia Smola 38. Late-Soviet Occulture: Evgenii Golovin and the Iuzhinskii Circle Maria Engström 39. Moscow Conceptualism Daniil Leiderman and Mark Lipovetsky 40. Young Conceptualists Tomás Glanc 41. The Circle of Metarealist Poets Aleksandr Zhitenev 42. Arkady Dragomoshchenko and the Leningrad Cultural Underground Evgeny Pavlov and Dennis Ioffe 43. Timur Novikov and the New Artists Ekaterina Andreeva 44. Neo-primitivist Art and Lifestyle: The Mitki and Others Alexandar Mihailovic Index"

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Mark Lipovetsky is professor of Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. His research interests include Russian postmodernism, New Drama, Soviet literary and cinematic tricksters, Soviet underground culture as well as various aspects of post-Soviet culture. He is the author of twelve monographs and more than a hundred articles. He also co-edited twenty collections of articles on Russian literature and culture of the 20th-21st centuries. Among his books are the following: Charms of Cynical Reason: The Transformations of the Trickster Trope in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture (2011), Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot (2017), and A Guerilla Logos: The Project of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov (co-authored with Ilya Kukulin). Lipovetsky is also one of four co-authors of the Oxford History of Russian Literature (2018) Maria Engström is Professor of Russian at the Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University (Sweden). She is the author of numerous articles on cultural recycling, Russian queer visual culture, post-soviet neoconservative intellectual milieu, and imperial aesthetics in contemporary Russian literature and art. She is also co-editor of Digital Orthodoxy: Mediating Post-Secularity in Russia (2015). Tomá%s Glanc is Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, University Zurich (Switzerland). He is working on various aspects of samizdat culture, Slavic ideology, Russian and Eastern European literature and culture of the 20th-21st centuries, including performance art and underground film and recordings, theory of literature. Glanc is also working internationally as a curator of exhibitions (Poetry and Performance, contemporary Russian art). Ilja Kukuj is the Coordinator for Russian Language Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He is the author of numerous publications on Soviet unofficial culture and the editor of several volumes on underground poetry including Leonid Aronzon, Oleg Prokofiev, Anri Volokhonsky, and Pavel Zaltsman. Kukuj is a co-editor of Wiener Slawistischer Almanach and member of Editorial Board of The Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat (Toronto). Klavdia Smola is Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures at the Department of Slavic Studies, University of Dresden (Germany). She authored two books and (co)edited eight volumes on Russian, Jewish and Polish culture and literature of the 20th and 21st- centuries. Her research interests include Soviet underground, Socialist Realism(s), nonconformist literature and art of Putin era and Soviet minority cultures. She is co-editor of the Journal of Slavic Studies (Zeitschrift für Slawistik).

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