Money was the radioactive spider that bit the New Russian Peter Parker.

“Party Like a Russian” is mess.

Zhdun only makes sense as the herald of whatever comes next.

Znak kachestva is a freak show from outer space.

Vatnik takes visual inspiration from SpongeBob (he is roughly the same shape) and satirical inspiration from the work of Seth McFarlane.

Znak kachestva is a freak show from outer space.

Soviet holdovers will inevitably pass, but stupidity is forever.

The window of the title is a magical object that allows for a new spin on an age-old Russian question: should I stay or should I go?

Mamin’s own window to international stardom was closed off abruptly.

The aesthetic of the MMM commercials is sovok from start to finish.

On the battleground of market capitalism, the sovok is a metaphysical conscientious objector.

The sovok phenomenon is haunted by ambivalence.

Even though the sovok is the product of Soviet/Russian urban folklore, he does not usually fit the traditional genres associated with it.

For a brief, glorious time in the 2000s, a website established by three post-Soviet emigres devoted itself exclusively to the topic of sovok.

"Sovok” becomes a diagnosis of a familiar, lamentable condition.

"Sovok" circulated the same way as the best critical or anti-Soviet cultural phenomena did during Soviet times: as folklore.

As an alternative to Homosos, “zoe” (bare life, the life of the animal, non-political body) starts to look positively attractive

“Homo Sovieticus” is not just Latin; it’s a biological term that suggests both an evolutionary process and even the rise of separate species.

Some of the men who populated Brezhnev’s famously geriatric politburo may have been “New Men” or even “New Soviet Men” in their youth

The "New People suffer from a socialist version of the “terrible perfection” Barbara Heldt identified as the defining flaw of nineteenth-century Russian heroines