Satire and Protest in Putin s Russia

This book studies satirical protest in today's Russia, addressing the complex questions of the limits of allowed humor, the oppressive mechanisms deployed by the State and pro-State agents as well as counterstrategies of cultural resistance. What forms of satirical protest are there? Is there State-sanctioned satire? Can satire be associated with propaganda? How is satire related to myth? Is satirical protest at all effective?these are some of the questions the authors tackle in this book. The first part presents an overview of the evolution of satire on stage, on the Internet and on television on the background of the changing post-Soviet media landscape in the Putin era. Part Two consists of five studies of satirical protest in music, poetry and public protests.

Reviews the evolution of satire in the post-Soviet period Examines various forms of satirical protest in today's Russia Discusses the ambiguity of satire and its relation to critique and protest, but also to censorship and propaganda

Auteur

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.

Résumé
"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)

Contenu

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.