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Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
(Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)
by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma
Paperback, Published 2019 by Routledge 2019-12
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-87414-8, ISBN: 0-367-87414-8

Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma
248 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-317-35263-1, ISBN: 1-317-35263-7

"As the Swiss theatre director and journalist Milo Rau, founder of the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM), has astutely pointed out, there is a fundamental difference between the dissidence of the Cold War era and today's dissent, and it is dangerous to confuse the two. The Western idea of dissidence is rooted in cases such as those of Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is a romanticized image; today's ..."

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia
by Olga Gurova
200 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-135-02029-3, ISBN: 1-135-02029-9

"... enclosure Khoziaiushka, Krest'ianka No 11 (1991), p. 3. “Classic style” is arguably the central style in the discourse of clothing in Russia. This style comprises safe, moderately fashionable, timeless clothes in “neutral” tones whose owner hardly seeks to stand out from the crowd. These garments are practical and aimed at longlasting use. The classic style correspondsto socialist norms of moderation, elegance, and propriety. 1 ..."

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia(1st Edition)
(Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)
by Olga Gurova
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-84135-1, ISBN: 0-415-84135-6

"This book explores how clothing consumption has changed in Russia in the past 20 years as capitalism has grown in a postsocialist state, bringing with it a "consumer revolution." It shows how there has been and continues to be a massive change in the fashion retail market and how ideal lifestyles portrayed in glossy magazines and other media have contributed to the consumer revolution, as have shifts in the social structure and everyday ..."

Fashion and the Consumer Revolution in Contemporary Russia
by Olga Gurova
200 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-135-02030-9, ISBN: 1-135-02030-2

"During late socialism, Soviet taste diversified, and the state had to embrace the spread of various “deviant” consumer patterns, such as stiliagi, which became a mass phenomenon in the 1970s. 3 As Alexei Yurchak points out, in the 1970s the state critically ... primarily as a folk analytical category that relates income level and the capacity to consume with professional background, education, and other measures of social achieveme ..."

Cultural Forms of Political Protest in Russia(1st Edition)
(BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, Sanna Turoma
Hardcover, 262 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-95665-0, ISBN: 1-138-95665-1

"Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; ..."