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Introduction: Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia, Maria Engstrm̲ and Aleksei Semenenko Part I. Visual Arts 1. Very Old Songs about the Most Important Thing: Deconstruction Ńostalgia Áffirmation, Ilya Kalinin 2. Recycled Art? Recycling Socialism in Recent Russian Art, Klavdia Smola 3. Dark Petroaesthetics: The Crude Ghosts of Soviet Oil, Maria Engstrm̲ Part II. Film and Television 4. In Search of Emotional Teleology: Melodramatization of the Soviet past in Russian films 2020-2023, Mark Lipovetsky 5. Dumping the Soviet myth of Russian provinces in the independent cinema of the 2010s, Birgit Beumers 6. Sputniks Ghosts: Recycling the Soviet Space-Age Mythology in 21stcentury Russian Film as a Metamodernist Future-Fabulation Strategy, Natalija Majsova 7. Inside Lapenko: Alternative Soviet Mythologies, Aleksei Semenenko Part III. Urban Narratives 8. Soviet Retrofuturism and the New Military Temple Architecture: Analyzing Russias Neo-Soviet Iconography, Masha Panteleyeva 9. From Peoples House to Cultural Cluster: GES-2 and the Mythology of the Third Place in Contemporary Russia, Ekaterina Kalinina 10. Welcome to Leningrad: Neo-Soviet Myth in Contemporary St. Petersburg, Irina Seits Part IV. Music and Video Games 11. A longing with no home: Russophone post-punk and the neo-Soviet myth, Marco Biasioli 12. Playing the USSR: Atomic Heart and Soviet wave, Maria Engstrm̲ and Aleksei Semenenko

This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is recycled and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to the sphere of myth.These processes, conceptualized under the term Soviet myth, are crucial for understanding the growing nostalgia for the USSR in Russia, recent cultural and ideological developments, and current domestic and foreign policies. The scope of this study extends from the late Soviet period to the present, but most chapters examine the pivotal decade in the formation of the Soviet myth, 2012-2022. Written by experts in the field, the book presents a broad spectrum of examples of how the Soviet legacy has been transmuted into the realm of mythology in visual arts, film, television, urban narratives, music, and video games.Soviet Myth in Post-Soviet Russia is of value to researchers studying Slavic and Russian studies, in particular post-Soviet culture, languages, literatures, anthropology, and political science.