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Cultures of Soviet Dissent: Art, Material Culture, Fashion

Sun, December 9, 8:00 to 9:45am, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Floor: 3rd, MIT

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The scholarship on Soviet and Post-Soviet art and material culture had been gaining its momentum since the end of the Soviet regime and collapse of the Soviet Union. Building upon the new theories of dissent and strategies of habitat (Johnson 2011), this panel proposes to investigate the nature of oppositional living under the Soviet and Post-Soviet regime. It investigates the co-opting strategies that helped the citizens live under the Soviet and now Post-Soviet regime and emphasizes the visual and material culture of this resistance. The art that was produced and the objects that were either purchased or made such as American souvenirs, Tsarist Russian coins or images, Samizdat books to name just a few, had been rarely investigated as objects of political dissent and disobedience. The panel then asks what constituted strategies of resistance when it comes to the production of art and material culture. It also explores how the objects were used at times completely different than their intended function to create personal stance against political ideologies.

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