Mediated Post-Soviet Nostalgia

In the early 1990s, after the collapse of communism in Russia, Soviet material and visual culture had been forced into obscurity by the allconquering Western media and pop culture. The excitement and hopes connected with President Yeltsin’s reforms gave way to disappointment, melancholia and a desire for stability and security. Nostalgic voices became more prominent, and the old Soviet sign system slowly started to seep back into the fabric of Russian culture. Around this time, Soviet-nostalgia-