• “Boundless” Russia and what to make of it 

      Rogatchevski, Andrei; Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Spanning more than 17 million square kilometers, the Russian Federation covers an expanse bigger than any other country on Earth, and houses a population of over 144 million people and 170 ethnic groups. Even before considering Russia’s rich and complex history, these facts alone go a long way in explaining why the concept of Russian space and its meaning represent a major challenge not only for the ...
    • Egor Letov 

      Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-02)
      Egor (Igor’) Fedorovich Letov, a Siberian singer-songwriter, poet, musician, sound producer, and graphic artist, was born 10 September 1964 in Omsk, USSR, and died 19 February 2008 in Omsk, Russian Federation. Letov is most frequently associated with his songwriting. He wrote and recorded nearly 600 songs, co-authorship excluded. However, in two periods of his life, between 1982-86 and 1994-97, ...
    • Kitten Heresy: Lost Contexts of Pussy Riot's Punk Prayer 

      Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      On August 17, 2012, following six months in custody, three key members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison. Their attempted performance in the Christ the Savior Cathedral of Moscow—of a punk prayer denouncing lone presidental candidate Vladimir Putin—was condemned by the court as an act of religious hatred. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,Maria Alekhina, and ...
    • Leonid Andreev’s Krasnyi smekh: Four Locations of Collective and Individual Mental Illness 

      Rogatchevski, Andrei; Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      <p>Andreyev’s story <i>Krasnyi smekh</i> (The Red Laugh, 1905) describes mass madness as a combat-related contagious epidemic engulfing an unnamed country (at war with another unnamed country). It thus predicts the Great War and the imminent East/Central European revolutions. Moreover, the story retained its significance up until the late Soviet period and can also be read as a proto-zombie apocalypse ...
    • Mapping the Black Void: Ianka Diagileva’s poem ‘Klassicheskii depresniak’ 

      Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-31)
      The article presents a two-level analysis of a poem on depression, ‘Klassicheskii depresniak’ (‘Classic Depressive’), by the Siberian poet and singer Iana “Ianka” Diagileva (1966-1991). The first level of analysis focuses on the lexical stratum of the poem, while the second compares the poem to psychiatric diagnostics (DSM-IV) and cognitive psychological theory (Seligman 1975), recommended by two ...
    • "Saftutpresseren": Russisk rocktekst i politisk brytningstid : seks tekster av Konstantin Kinčev 

      Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 1996-03)
    • Siberian punk shall emerge here : Egor Letov and Grazhdanskaia Oborona 

      Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Any study of punk rock in Russia will in some way come into contact with the massive influence of Egor Letov, his band Grazhdanskaia Oborona, and their extensive output during the late 1980s. Academia has thus far been reluctant to study the band because of its leader's involvement with dubious right-wing movements and his many tasteless and provocative media stunts during the 1990s. By taking its ...
    • "Svalbard Studies: Coal Mining in the Russo-Norwegian Context” 

      Rogatchevski, Andrei; Steinholt, Yngvar B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-16)
      This short article offers an introduction to Poljarnyj Vestnik’s special issue on Svalbard Studies.