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seemedtobecometheverysiteofthepolitical
imaginationwherenew,alternative,formsofopposition
couldbeinventedandtested.Onitsagenda,pluralinits
vectors,therewasarediscoveryofsuppressedMarxism
andiron-hardcollectivityandsolidarity,adefenseofgay
rights(extremelyfraughtincontemporaryRussia),anti-
clericalism,andunderstandingofeconomicprecarity.
Itrehabilitatesandre-appropriatesSovietanti-Stalinist
culturalheritageintheverymomentwhenallthe
remnantsofSovietwelfarestateanditsideology(free
education,internationalism,critically-orientedandwidely
availablecultureandnon-consumeristethicsofwork,
aswellasarchitecturalmonumentsofthiseraandmind)
aremassivelyattackedbybothstateandcapital,andare
abouttovanish.
Thepost-Sovietstateisatitsend,thereisafeeling
ofchangeintheair,buttheirdirectionremainsunknown.
Post-Post-Soviet?Art,Politics&SocietyinRussiaatthe
TurnoftheDecade
isanattempttodescribeahistorical
momentthatisnotyetfullyunderstood.Byplacing
dialogueswithartistsalongsidecriticaltextsbycurators,
scholars,historiansandactivists,thisvolumeseeks
totestifytothestateofthespiritofchange.Thetexts
presentedinthisvolumeareofverydifferentnatures,
theypresentvarious(sometimescontradictory)
standpoints,andtheywerewrittenindifferentmoments
between2007and2013(somearereprinted).Some
ofthemareveryrecent,inwhichcasehistorywillshortly
provideitsnecessaryrevisions,whileothershave
predicted(orweretrying)whatiscoming.Initsvaried
form,thiscollectionaimstoshowthedynamics
ofsomethingdifficulttograsp,anuncertainmoment
ofinstabilitywhich,asinmanycasesalreadyknown
tous,mightburstintorevolution,ormighteasilyreturn
tothestateofenforcedstagnation.Ineithercase,willart
beequaltothehistoricaloccasion?