The New Dark Age

10 May, 2010 — MRZine-Monthly Review

“We’ve come to tell the story of hopes that didn’t come true, of promises that weren’t made good. Here are five heroes of perestroika. . . . An idealistic democrat. A noble businessman. A heroic revolutionary. A bitter nationalist. And a woman who has found her own voice. . . . How the Democrat and the Businessman sang like a pair of lovebirds: Freedom! Freedom! How quickly they figured out that there are things more important than freedom. . . . Hatred for authority. That’s the main thing. Revolution, that’s the ticket. After it’s over, we’ll see what kind of revolution it was.”

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Film by Chto Delat? (Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, Natalia Pershina [Gliuklya], and Nikolai Oleinikov; Director: Olga Egorova (Tsaplya); Music: Mikhail Krutik; Screenplay: Tsaplya, Dmitry Vilensky, and Gliuklya; Editing: Tsaplya and Dmitry Vilensky; Camera and Lighting: Artem Ignatov; Sound: Sergei Knyazev; Set Design: Nikolai Oleinikov and Dmitry Vilensky. 2009. Chto Delat/What Is To Be Done? was founded in 2003 by a group of artists and writers from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and Petersburg with the goal of merging art, activism, and political theory. See, also, Chto Delat, “Partisan Songspiel: A Belgrade Story.”