Mark Lipovetsky

Mark Lipovetsky is a leading Russian literary, film and cultural critic and an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder

The indiscreet charm of the Russian cynic

Russia’s foremost historian of culture reflects on the cultural functions of cynicism in Soviet and post-Soviet society. He ruefully concludes that Russia has yet to escape the Soviet paradigm: the Pussy Rioters, in their demonstrations against official cynicism, were merely the latest incarnation

By Mark Lipovetsky

/ 24 Oct 2013