Consuming Russia

Adele Marie Barker is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Mother Syndrome in the Russian Folk Imagination and coeditor of Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges between (Ex)Soviet and American Women, also published by Duke University Press.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I Introduction 1. Rereading Russia / Adele Marie Barker 2. The Culture Factory: Theorizing the Popular in the Old and New Russia / Adele Marie Barker Part II Popular Culture 3. Public Offerings: MMM and the Marketing of Melodrama / Eliot Borenstein 4. Gagarin and the Rave Kids: Transforming Power, Identity, and Aesthetics in Post-Soviet Nightlife / Alexei Yurchak 5. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Holy Rus' and Its Alternatives in Russian Rock Music / Julia P. Friedman and Adam Weiner 6. Popular Children's Culture in Post-Perestroika Russia: Songs of Innocence and Experience Revisited / Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky 7. Markets, Mirrors, and Mayhem: Aleksandra Marinina and the Rise of the New Russian Detektiv / Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy 8. In Search of an Audience: The New Russian Cinema of Reconciliation / Susan Larsen 9. There Are no Rules on Planet Russia: Post-Soviet Spectator Sport / Robert Edelman 10. Saying "Lenin" and Meaning "Party": Subversion and Laughter in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society / Anna Krylova 11. Going to the Dogs: Pet Life in the New Russia / Adele Marie Barker Part III Sexualities 12. Publicly Queer: Representations of Queer Subjects and Subjectivities in the Absence of Identity / Laurie Essig 13. Queer Performance: "Male" Ballet / Tim Scholl 14. Pornography in Russia / Paul W. Goldschmidt Part IV Society and Social Artifacts 15. Body Graphics: Tattooing the Fall of Communism / Nancy Condee 16. Communism as Kitsch: Soviet Symbols in Post-Soviet Society / Theresa Sabonis-Chafee 17. From the Toilet to the Museum: Memory and Metamorphosis of Soviet Trash / Svetlana Boym 18. Paranoid Graffiti at Execution Wall: Nationalist Interpretations of Russia's Travail / John Bushnell 19. "Christianity, Antisemitism, Nationalism": Russian Orthodoxy in a Reborn Orthodox Russia / Judith Deutsch Kornblatt 20. Suspending Disbelief: "Cults" and Postmodernism in Post-Soviet Russia / Eliot Borenstein Contributors Index

“An invaluable key to reading the cultural salad of today’s Russia, useful to students as well as to their teachers. Barbie dolls, detective fiction, raves and the gay scene, tattoos and graffiti, even an Argentine soap opera that advertises a pyramid scheme: Consuming Russia is great as a classroom text and as a guidebook to the changing face of popular culture.”-James von Geldern, Macalester College “This volume on post-Soviet Russian culture is noteworthy for its range and critical edge. The authors comment on the impact of Western productions and practices, as well as the reformulation of longstanding Russian traditions. Adele Barker is to be congratulated. From rock and sport to film and popular literature, here is a cook’s tour of the sad, curious, and sometimes marvelous carnival of post-Soviet public expression.”-Jeffrey Brooks, Johns Hopkins University