Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine by Jessica Zychowicz (review)

on more amorphous, cross-generic and multi-media modes of expression such as satire. Published in December 2021, three months before the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Satire and Protest in Putin’s Russia unwittingly gives us a snapshot of Russian culture at the end of one fraught era and just before the onset of a new, even more frightening period in its development. In that regard, it should prove especially valuable when read alongside recent work on Russian humour and satire in the run-up to, and in the wake of, Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine by Eliot Borenstein, Mark Lipovetsky, Gasan Guseinov and others.