Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors Notes -- Introduction -- PART I: Written Discourse -- Chapter 1: The Function of the Soviet Experience in Post-Soviet Discourse -- Chapter 2: Cycles, Continuity and Change in Contemporary Russian Culture -- Chapter 3: Victor Pelevin and the Void -- Chapter 4: From Homo Zapiens to Media Sapiens: Post-Soviet Television in Russian Fiction -- PART II: Visual and Popular Culture -- Chapter 5: Afrika and Monroe: Post-Soviet Appropriation, East and West -- Chapter 6: Military Dandyism, Cosmism and Eurasian Imper-Art -- Chapter 7: Sweet Dreams: Retro Imagery on Chocolate Packaging in Post-Soviet Russia -- Chapter 8: Victory Day: Rituals and Practices of War Commemoration in Russia -- PART III: Cinematic Culture -- Chapter 9: A Kiss for the KGB: Putin as Cinematic Hero -- Chapter 10: "Address Your Questions to Dostoevsky": Privatizing Punishment in Russian Cinema -- Chapter 11: Freedom and Uncertainty: The Cinema of Slava Tsukerman -- Chapter 12: Muratova's Cinema before and after Perestroika: Deconstructing and Rebuilding Film Aesthetics -- Chapter 13: The Place of Action Must Not be Changed: Aleksei Balabanov's St Petersburg -- Index -- Back Cover. |