Birgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.Alexander Etkind is Professor of the History of Russia–Europe Relations at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.Olga Gurova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Sanna Turoma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.

• Introduction: genres and genders of protest in Russia's petrostateAlexander EtkindPart I: Origins and traditions of protest1. Fathers, sons, and grandsons: generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989–2012Vladimir Gel'man2. Dissidents reloaded? Anti-Putin activists and the Soviet legacyValentina Parisi3. Why ‘two Russias’ are less than ‘United Russia’: cultural distinctions and political similarities: dialectics of defeatIlya Kalinin4. Are copycats subversive? Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment and the transformative potential of non-hierarchical movementsMischa Gabowitsch5. Political consumerism in Russia after 2011Olga Gurova 6. Even the toys are demanding free elections: humour and the politics of creative protest in Russia Jennifer G. MathersPart II: Artistic and performative forms of protest 7. Biopolitics, believers, bodily protests: the case of Pussy RiotAlexandra Yatsyk8. Hysteria or enjoyment? Recent Russian actionismJonathan Brooks Platt9. Bleep and ***: speechless protestBirgit Beumers10. On the (im)possibility of a third opinionKristina Norman11. Performing poetry and protest in the age of digital reproductionMarijeta Bozovic12. When satire does not subvert: Citizen Poet as nostalgiaSanna Turoma