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Wartime Intimacy: Zoya Kosmodemianskaya and the Chto Delat School for Engaged Art
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Platt J.
Jonathan Brooks Platt’s chapter discusses the Chto Delat School for Engaged Art as an alternative institution in contemporary Russia, founded on practices of intimacy and a community of shared exposure. The model of the school is challenged by the performance, Becoming Zoya (2014), initiated by Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskay (Gluklya), which asked the students to measure themselves against a famous Soviet militant and consider the meaning of the Russian podvig (heroic exploit).