Mark Lipovetsky, together with an international team of editors (Maria Engstrom, Tomáš Glanc, Ilia Kukuj and Klavdia Somla), haspublished “The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture,” the first comprehensive English-language volume covering the rich history of the Soviet artistic and literary underground. The Handbook’s contributors treat Soviet cultural nonconformism as a phenomenon with its own history and internal logic, idiosyncratic principles, and invisible normativity. The Handbook represents an attempt to outline the map of this realm and at the same time to draft a history of the Soviet non-official culture from the 1930s to the end of the USSR.

Image: Erik Bulatov, “Horizon” (1971-72), from the chapter on Moscow Conceptualism.