Description
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.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsAbout the Volume EditorsContributorsIntroduction1. Theoretical Problems of Soviet Underground CultureMark Lipovetsky, Tom?? Glanc, Maria Engstr?m, Ilja Kukuj, and Klavdia SmolaPart I: Precursors2. The Birth of Soviet Underground Culture in the 1930sMaya Vinokour3. OBERIU and the Conversations of the Lipavsky CircleEugene Ostashevsky4. Mikhail Kuzmin and the Underground Nikolai Bogomolov5. The Soviet Literary Underground during World War IIPolina Barskova6. Between Modernism and the Underground During the Thaw: A Look at "Transitional Poets"Massimo MaurizioPart II: Institutions7. Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience: Practices in the Late Soviet UndergroundDirk Uffelmann8. Infrastructures of Soviet Underground CultureValentina Parisi9. The Voices of Samizdat and MagnitizdatAnn Komaromi10. Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution: Late Soviet Underground AbroadYasha Klots11. "In-Betweeners": Navigating Between Official and Nonofficial CulturesAinsley Morse12. "Grey Zones" Between Official and Unofficial Cultures: Institutional Diversity, Klub-81, and (Many) OthersIlya Kukulin Part III: Mapping13. The Ukrainian Underground: Resistance and PerformanceTamara Hundorova14. Nearly Underground in the Near-Abroad: Outliers in Soviet Baltic CultureMark Allen Svede and K?rlis V?rdi??15. Belarusian Underground CultureTatsiana Astrouskaya16. The Fergana School of Poetry: In Search of a Postcolonial SubjectKirill Korchagin17. Unofficial Art Outside Moscow and LeningradTatiana Sokhareva18. West- and East-European Sources and Contexts for the Late-Soviet UndergroundTom?? Glanc19. Jewish Underground Culture in the Soviet UnionKlavdia Smola20. Queer Culture(s)Vitaly Chernetsky and Devin McFadden21. Dissident Feminism and Its Place in Soviet Women's History Alla MitrofanovaPart IV: Forms and Media22. Performative Practices and Life-CreationMark Lipovetsky23. "Here, Performance Art is Performance Art": The "Appearance" of Performance Art in Soviet SubcultureSylvia Sasse24. Soviet Rock Carnival: Times and TraditionsMark Yoffe25. The Experimental Sounds of Russian Conceptualism: From Historical Musical Avant-garde to Cultural Underground(s) Dennis Ioffe26. Underground Visual Arts: Photography, Film, Photo-Based ConceptualismOlesya TurkinaPart V: Lifeworlds27. GULAG Testimony Between Pluto and Orpheus Ilya Kalinin28. The 1950s: A Phase of PolarizationIlja Kukuj29. The Lianozovo School Mikhail Pavlovets30. Malaya Sadovaya in the History of Leningrad Unofficial Culture Ainsley Morse31. Khelenuktism and Leningrad's Unofficial Culture Stanislav Savickij32. The Urbanites and the New ExistentialismAnastasiya Osipova33. The Neo-Futurists Kirill Korchagin34. The Ultimate Underground Classic: Venedikt Erofeev and Moscow-Petushki Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov, and Ilya Simanovsky35. Brodsky and His CirclesDenis Akhapkin36. The Leningrad School of Neo-Modernism Josephine von Zitzewitz37. "Gazanevshchina": Experimental (Life) Artists of LeningradKlavdia Smola38. Late-Soviet Occulture: Evgenii Golovin and the Iuzhinskii CircleMaria Engstr?m39. Moscow ConceptualismDaniil Leiderman and Mark Lipovetsky40. Young ConceptualistsTom?s Glanc41. The Circle of Metarealist PoetsAleksandr Zhitenev42. Arkady Dragomoshchenko and the Leningrad Cultural UndergroundEvgeny Pavlov and Dennis Ioffe43. Timur Novikov and the New ArtistsEkaterina Andreeva44. Neo-primitivist Art and Lifestyle: The Mitki and OthersAlexandar MihailovicIndex
