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Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video

Eliot Borenstein

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The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow out of the repressive media environment of the Soviet Union? What does this viral content reveal about the country, its politics and its culture? And why are the memes and videos of today's Russia so popular, spreading so rapidly across the globe?

Award-winning author Eliot Borenstein explores the explosive online movement and unpicks, for the first time, the role of mimetic content and digital activism in modern Russian history up to the present day.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publish Date: Feb 24th, 2022
  • Pages: 160
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.44in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9781350181533
  • Categories: • Russia - General• Modern - 21st Century• Social History

About the Author

Borenstein, Eliot: - "Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies, Collegiate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University, USA. His first book, Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1919, won the AATSEEL award for best work in literary scholarship in 2000. In 2007, he published Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture, which received the AWSS award for best book in Slavic Gender Studies in 2008. His is also the author of Plots Against Russia: Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism (2009 - winner of the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize) and Pussy Riot (2020, Bloomsbury Academic). Borenstein was also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009."
Avrutin, Eugene M.: - Eugene M. Avrutin is the Tobor Family Endowed Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books, including Jews and the Imperial State: Identification Politics in Tsarist Russia (2010) and The Velizh Affair: Blood Libel in a Russian Town (2018). Most recently, he edited, with Elissa Bemporad, Pogroms: A Documentary History (2021).
Norris, Stephen M.: - Stephen M. Norris is Walter E. Havighurst Professor of Russian History and Director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University (OH), USA. He is the author and editor of seven books, including A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945 (2008) and Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, Patriotism (2012).

Praise for this book

Eliot Borenstein's portrait of online creativity in Russia is deft, witty, and thought-provoking, it makes you laugh and it makes you learn. A short book with a big impact.
Catriona H M Kelly, Professor of Russian; Lecturer at Merton College, University of Cambridge, UK
By plunging into the world of Russian internet memes, Eliot Borenstein offers a visually exciting, highly readable, humorous and, at the same time, truly original and profound history of Russian culture in the first decades of the 21st century. A pleasure for anyone interested in contemporary Russia, this book has unique educational value - any course based on it will be a hit.
Mark Lipovetsky, Author of Postmodern Crises: From Lolita to Pussy Riot, Columbia University, USA