Soviet Self-Hatred
The Secret Identities of Postsocialism
About the Project
Until recently, this book was called “Russia’s Alien Nations,” but that is now the title of its introduction. Nontheless, the book examines imaginary constructs of postsocialist Russian identity through stories of encounters with an even more imaginary Other.
Moving Beyond Money
The hero of Billionaire does not see money as the immediate solution to all problems.
The Man Who Has Everything
These novels include: transparent alien artifact hunters, a lost tribe of yeti, and a cryogenically frozen Adolf Hitler maintained by a colony of cloned Valkyries on a secret Antarctic base
Loving the Leviathan
The State is the Leviathan; the New Russian is somewhere between a piranha and a guppy.
Articles of Incorporation
If the New Russians/oligarchs are not responsible when things go bad, who is?
Raspberry Jackets of the Rich and Loathsome
The raspberry jacket quickly became shorthand for “New Russian”
The New Russian and the American Psycho
The New Russians of Death Comes by Internet would make excellent cult leaders
The Road to Serfdom
The New Russian offers a vision of social stratification that uses capitalism as a way station to serfdom
Loved Labours Lost
Virtually nothing that the New Russian did to generate money qualified as labor in the Soviet sense.
Soviet Bullshit and New Russian Spell-Casting
Green is not just the color of the crocodile, it is the color of the money that he conjures out of thin air.