Like, repost, arrest: Folklore on trial in the Soviet era and today

Authors

A.S. Arkhipova Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences , The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration , Russian State University for the Humanities Автор
A.A. Kirzyuk Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences , The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Автор

Keywords:

internet-folklore, soviet folklore, POLITICAL persecution, extremism

Abstract

In 2014–2016, the State Procuracy conducted several trials of Russian citizens who spread visual political folklore on current topics through social networks. This paper reveals the logic behind these prosecutions and compares current cases with the Soviet system of repression from 1928 to 1985.

Published

2016-07-15

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 4 (2016)

Section

Articles