Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.

• Chapter 1. The Evolution of Censorship in Russia.- Chapter 2. The Evolution of Satire in Russia.- Chapter 3. Satire on post-Soviet TV: From “Puppets” to Puppets.- Chapter 4. KVN: A TV Show Larger than Television.- Chapter 5. Joking Apart: Russian Humor of the Digital Era.- Chapter 5. Monstrations’ and 'Shimmering': Absurdist Popular Protests , by Daniel Leiderman.- Chapter 6. Beyond Subversive Affirmation: The New Dissent Art in Russia, by Klavdia Smola.- Chapter 7. The mediality of satirical protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”, by Annelie Bachmaier.- Chapter 8. Conservative Imperfection: Satire and New Populism of Leningrad, by Maria Engström.- Epilogue. Beyond Satire, by Aleksei Semenenko.

“In addition to its considerable contribution to scholarship on contemporary Russian culture, Semenenko’s comparative historical discussion makes it a valuable addition to studies of the place of humour and satire in Soviet culture … . This volume also fills a gap in the scholarship on Putin-era culture and cultural politics, which has tended to focus on particular media (literature, film, television, art, music) or genres, rather than on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire.” (Seth Graham, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 101 (2), January, 2023)

Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.

• Chapter 1. The Evolution of Censorship in Russia.- Chapter 2. The Evolution of Satire in Russia.- Chapter 3. Satire on post-Soviet TV: From “Puppets” to Puppets.- Chapter 4. KVN: A TV Show Larger than Television.- Chapter 5. Joking Apart: Russian Humor of the Digital Era.- Chapter 5. Monstrations’ and 'Shimmering': Absurdist Popular Protests , by Daniel Leiderman.- Chapter 6. Beyond Subversive Affirmation: The New Dissent Art in Russia, by Klavdia Smola.- Chapter 7. The mediality of satirical protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”, by Annelie Bachmaier.- Chapter 8. Conservative Imperfection: Satire and New Populism of Leningrad, by Maria Engström.- Epilogue. Beyond Satire, by Aleksei Semenenko.

“In addition to its considerable contribution to scholarship on contemporary Russian culture, Semenenko’s comparative historical discussion makes it a valuable addition to studies of the place of humour and satire in Soviet culture … . This volume also fills a gap in the scholarship on Putin-era culture and cultural politics, which has tended to focus on particular media (literature, film, television, art, music) or genres, rather than on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire.” (Seth Graham, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 101 (2), January, 2023)

Aleksei Semenenko is Associate Professor in Russian at Umeå University. He is the author of The Texture of Culture: An Introduction to Yuri Lotman’s Semiotic Theory (2012), Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation (2007), Aksenov and the Environs (coedited with Lars Kleberg; 2012) and other works on Russian culture, translation and semiotics.

• Chapter 1. The Evolution of Censorship in Russia.- Chapter 2. The Evolution of Satire in Russia.- Chapter 3. Satire on post-Soviet TV: From “Puppets” to Puppets.- Chapter 4. KVN: A TV Show Larger than Television.- Chapter 5. Joking Apart: Russian Humor of the Digital Era.- Chapter 5. Monstrations’ and 'Shimmering': Absurdist Popular Protests , by Daniel Leiderman.- Chapter 6. Beyond Subversive Affirmation: The New Dissent Art in Russia, by Klavdia Smola.- Chapter 7. The mediality of satirical protest in Putin’s Russia: “Grazhdanin poet”, by Annelie Bachmaier.- Chapter 8. Conservative Imperfection: Satire and New Populism of Leningrad, by Maria Engström.- Epilogue. Beyond Satire, by Aleksei Semenenko.

“In addition to its considerable contribution to scholarship on contemporary Russian culture, Semenenko’s comparative historical discussion makes it a valuable addition to studies of the place of humour and satire in Soviet culture … . This volume also fills a gap in the scholarship on Putin-era culture and cultural politics, which has tended to focus on particular media (literature, film, television, art, music) or genres, rather than on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire.” (Seth Graham, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 101 (2), January, 2023)