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Sots-Art, Conceptualism, and Russian Postmodernism: An Introduction
Nancy Condee

Part I—Sots-Art: Between Socialist Realism and Postmodernism

Postmodernism, Communism, and Sots-Art
Mikhail Epstein

Text as a Ready-Made Object
Boris Groys

The Reading, Understanding, and Discursive Genres of Conceptualism
Viktor Lettsev

Playing Absolute Time: Chronotypes of Sots-Art
Marina Balina

Part II—Sots-Art and Poetry

Socialist Realism, a Postscriptum: Dimitrii Prigov and the Aesthetic Limits of Sots-Art
Evgeny Dobrenko

Lev Rubinshtein's Early Conceptualism: The Programs of Works
Gerald Janecek

A Transfiguration of Kitsch—Timur Kibirov's Sentiments: A Farewell Elegy for Soviet Civilization
Gregory Freidin

Iosif Vissarionovich Pushkin, or Sots-Art and the New Russian Poetry
Vitaly Chernetsky

Part III—Sots-Art and Prose

Vladimir Sorokin's "Theater of Cruelty"
Mark Lipovetsky

The Diary of a Writer from Tëplyi Stan': The Beautifulness of Life by Evgenii Popov
 Marina Kanevskaya

Reading Palisandria: Of Menippean Satire and Sots-Art
Larisa Rudova

Viktor Pelevin and the End of Sots-Art
Gerald McCausland

Notes on Contributors