The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication.

Chapters

Khelenuktism and Leningrad’s Unofficial Culture

Savitski S., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Ch. 7.

Added: October 20, 2021

The Fergana School of Poetry

Korchagin K., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. P. 354–374.

The Fergana School is one of the most remarkable phenomena in post-Soviet poetry. Its representatives (Shamshad Abdullaev, Hamdam Zakirov, and Hamid Ismailov, closely associated with the school) proposed a project to recreate Uzbek literature in the early 1990s. This project involved inventing a new type of subjectivity akin to postcolonial subjectivity in many of its ...

Added: June 18, 2026

The Neo-Futurists

Korchagin K., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture.: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. P. 756–773.

Interest in the Russian Futurist poetry of the first two-and-a-half decades of the twentieth century was revived in Soviet literary circles in the mid-1950s. Initially focused on the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky, interest spread to other writers. At the turn of the fifties and sixties, this revival resulted in regular “unsanctioned” poetry readings at the ...

Added: June 18, 2026

Keywords: Soviet underground, intellectual history, late Soviet culture