Vol. 2025 No. 1 (2025): Anarchism in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia

Journal cover of a peasant carrying a black flag with a sun rising in the background

This issue of Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies focusses on histories of creativity, rebellion and activism in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Guest edited by Aleksandr Migurskii of the ЭГАЛИТÉ (Egalité) publishing house, articles address a plethora of issues, including invasion and occupation, strategies of resistance, philosophical anarchism, and the liberatory potential of the arts.

Cover Art: Flag Bearer (artist unknown), Anarkhiia no. 45 April 24, 1918

Published: 2025-05-09

Articles

Building Houses of Being

Aleksandr Migurskii

9-14
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Anarchy and Theatre, Theatre and Anarchy: G.S. Khodes, E.P. Garin, and I.A. Charin’s engagements with the anarchist movement during the Russian Revolution (1917-1921) and its aftermath

Sergey Ovsyannikov

17-43
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“Man without quotes” and “gentleman with a mocking face” in the “Crystal Palace”: Concerning A.A. Borovoy’s unpublished manuscript, “Dostoevsky”

Petr Ryabov

45-80
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The Anarchist Potential through Critical Posthumanism in Contemporary Russian Cinema: An Analysis of D. Moiseev’s Science-Fiction Film Contacts

Tatiana Kruvko

81-103
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Optional Ⓐntology of Anarchism

Grigory Komlev

105-133
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Conceptual foundations of anarchitecture and guerrilla urbanism as an alternative to the repressive mode of late capitalist urban planning

Ekaterina Simonova

135-168
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Self-organization of Kherson region population in conditions of lack of governance during occupation and liberation (2022-2025)

Mykyta Mikhalkov

171-222
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Book Reviews

Book Review: I. Alinevich, On the Way to Magadan, with three short essays (“The Corporation”; “Self- determination”; “Political Prisoners”); forward by Vaiantsina Alinevich, afterward by Anarchist Black Cross Belarus (Anarchist Black Cross Belarus, 2014)

Allan Antliff

225-232
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