Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia

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Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia is written by Aleksei Semenenko and published by Palgrave Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030762785 (ISBN 10) and 9783030762780 (ISBN 13).

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.