Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture - Eliot Borenstein - Google Books

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Perestroika and the end of the Soviet Union transformed every aspect of life in Russia, and as hope began to give way to pessimism, popular culture came to reflect the anxiety and despair felt by more and more Russians. Free from censorship for the first…