Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Genres and genders of protest in Russia's petrostate -- Notes -- References -- Part I Origins and traditions of protest -- 1 Fathers, sons, and grandsons: Generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989-2012 -- From generation to generation: wine, vinegar, and cocktail -- The sixtiers: the last true believers -- The seventiers: politics without illusions -- The post-Soviet generation: a new turn? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note on Transliteration -- References -- 2 Dissidents reloaded?: Anti-Putin activists and the Soviet legacy -- 'Old' and 'new' dissenters -- Displaying protests -- Dissent of the dominant, dissent of the dominated -- References -- 3 Why 'two Russias' are less than 'United Russia': Cultural distinctions and political similarities ... -- The intelligentsia and the state: a tradition of 'stylistic divergences' -- The protest of the 'successful and well-fed' -- 'Sha Pu Na Na' vs. 'Bo Ro Di No' -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 4 Are copycats subversive?: Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment, and the transformative potential ... -- Bottom-up and top-down movements in Russia -- Copycat movements -- Case selection and sources -- A subversive defence of the Constitution? Strategy-31 -- Subversive temperance? The Russian Runs -- Subversive war commemoration? The Immortal Regiment -- Conclusion -- Note and acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Interviews -- 5 Political consumerism in Russia after 2011 -- Introduction -- What is political consumerism? -- State, political consumerism, and nation-building in Russia -- Consumer nationalism and cultural producers in Russia