Making post-Soviet counterpublics: the aesthetics of Limonka and the National-Bolshevik Party (original) (raw)

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This article focuses on the shaping of the aesthetics and ideology of Eduard Limonov’s National-Bolshevik Party (NBP) through the pages of the radical newspaper Limonka. In order to study the making of the NBP as a political and intellectual community, the piece discusses Limonka’s editorial line, its graphic style, and the alternative cultural canon that this radical publication promoted, as well as several interviews with National-Bolshevik activists involved in this process. During its first years of existence, Limonka proposed a selection of controversial artistic, literary, and political role models, and the creation of an alternative fashion and lifestyle. The article argues that by provocatively combining totalitarian symbols, the aesthetics and posture of the historical avant-gardes, and Western counterculture, Limonka produced a collective narrative that contributed to the shaping of a new language of political protest in post-Soviet Russia. This resulted in a complex combination of stiob, a form of parody that involves an over-identification with its own object, and a neo-romantic impulse. This new discursive mode, which the article defines as “post-Soviet militant stiob,” should be seen as part of a series of tactics of radical resistance to what the National-Bolsheviks saw as the dominant neoliberal discourse of the mid-1990s.

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  4. Limonka is a slang name for a hand grenade, and a play on words on Limonov's own pseudonym, also derived from the word limon, that is, "lemon."
  5. See Shenfield (2001), Umland (2002), and Mathyl (2002, 2007a, 2007b). In their definition of the NBP as a "fascist" movement, Umland and Mathyl employs Griffin's concepts of "uncivil society," "groupuscular new right," and of "a fascist minimum," applicable to any "political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of ultra-national- ism" (Griffin 1991, 26, 2003). For a debate about the effectiveness and the heuristic value of this approach, see Gregor and Umland (2004-2005) and Gregor (2006).
  6. As an example of the development of such themes and motifs, see Limonov's semi-autobiogra- phical novels Eto ia -Edichka (It's Me, Eddie 1979, transl. 1983a), Dnevnik neudachnika ("Diary of a Looser," 1982), U nas byla velikaia epokha ("The Great Epoch," 1994), Podrostok Savenko (Memoir of a Russian Punk 1983b, transl. 1990), and Molodoi negodiai ("The Young Scoun- drel," 1986).
  7. Here, I am borrowing the expression that the writer Zakhar Prilepin, also a member of the NBP, used to describe the aesthetics of the movement when I interviewed him in the summer of 2013. See Zakhar Prilepin, Personal Interview, 8 August 2013.
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  11. Interview quoted in Yurchak (2011, 328).
  12. In an article that I discovered when this piece was already in production, Mischa Gabowitsch (2009) describes various forms of "fascist stiob" in Russia, including the NBP, as a way of com- pensating for the impossibility " …to express political dissent or social critique in straightfor- ward, politically constructive ways, through party competition and public debate" (8). Gabowitsch also draws on Yurchak's discussion of late Soviet performativity. More recently, stiob has been seen as a central component of Russian political culture in general, and of Russian nationalism and conservatism in particular (See Hemment 2015, Noordenbos 2016, 111-143). Here, I look at the origins and cultural underpinnings of this specifically post- Soviet mode of collective participation.
  13. On the making of Limonov's public persona, see, in particular, Golynko-Volfson (2002), Roga- chevskii (2003), Chantsev (2009), and Wakamiya (2009). Limonov's very eventful life has recently become the subject of Emmanuel Carrère's bestseller fictional biography Limonov, published in France in 2011 (transl. 2014), and now translated into over 20 languages. Interestingly, Carrère's book is mostly based on Limonov's own semi-autobiographical novels (see Prilepin 2012).
  14. See Kron (1979), Matich and Heim (1984), Carden (1984), Matich (1986), Ryan-Hayes (1988, 1993, 1995), and Simmons (1993). Carden significantly defined Eto ia -Edichka " … the quin- tessential novel of the Russian third wave emigration" (1984, 221).
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  16. After Limonov's "nationalist turn," the attitude of Western scholars and intellectuals toward his work changed drastically. As an example of this, see Gessen (2003).
  17. Eto ia -Edichka was published in Russia for the first time in 1990 by the publishing house Glagol, with a total print run of 390,000. See Limonov's full bibliography on his "unofficial website" limonow.de (last accessed 19 April 2016) and the website of the publishing house Glagol old.russ.ru/info/GLAGOL/ (last accessed 19 April 2016). On Limonov's first years in Russia, as well as on his travels to war zones in the early 1990s, see Dodolev (2012), as well as Limonov's own memoirs (and collected articles): Inostranets v smutnoe vremia (1992) 2007; Ubiistvo chasovogo: Stat'i 1993; Ischeznovenie varvarov 1992; Anatomiia geroia 1997; SMRT 2008.
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  19. Wakamiya argues that after returning to Russia and becoming involved with radical nationalist politics, Limonov distanced himself from his previous "exilic identities," embracing "particularly defined canons … … [and] narrowly defined national traditions." In post-Soviet Russia, accord- ing to Wakamiya, Limonov " … asserts his 'inherited' and 'authentic' qualities, among them an exaggeratedly heteronormative sexuality, which he defines in narrative forms that exploit hier- archical and patriarchal structures" (Wakamiya 2009, 109-112). In fact, Limonov's close associ- ation with Mogutin, and the fact that his novels were first published by Shatalov's publishing house, demonstrates that the shaping of his post-Soviet public persona was more nuanced than that (see Essig 1999, 146-149, 95, and in general on the link between queer identities and nation- alism in post-Soviet Russia, 123-161). Certain elements of Limonov's writing before and after his return to Russia can indeed be interpreted as masculinist and misogynist, and the aesthetics of the NBP was indeed based on a peculiar cult of war and masculinity. However, after his return to Russia, Limonov has often harshly criticized "traditional family values," and the pos- ition of the NBP in the sphere of gender and social politics has been far from being straightfor- ward (see Limonov, Drugaia Rossiia, 2003, 7-21, 167-173; and my own discussion of these issues in the present article). Finally, both Limonov and the NBP have been very critical of Russian cultural institutions and literary tradition, and have promoted a fairly eclectic and cosmo- politan cultural and literary canon (see Limonov, Drugaia Rossiia, 2003, 22-43, 91-104; and my own discussion of these issues in the present article).
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  26. Limonov himself used this expression to describe the aesthetics of Limonka when I interviewed him. See Eduard Limonov, Personal Interview, 15 August 2013.
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  28. See, among others: Polkovnik Ivan Chernyi. "Pokhishchenie i kazn' Al'do Moro" (on the Italian terrorist group "Red Brigades"). Limonka 12: Apr. 1995; "Pivnoi putsch. Munich, 1923." Limonka 13: May 1995; "Rozhdenie partii" (on the beginnings of the National-Socialist Party in Germany). Limonka 14: May 1995; "Bog voiny-Makhagala" (on Baron Ungern-Shternberg). Limonka 15: Jun. 1995; "Skachka na tigre" (on Italian right-wing terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s). Limonka 17: Jul. 1995; "Noch' dlinnykh nozhei." Limonka 22: Oct. 1995; "Val'kiriia revoliutsii." Limonka 25: Nov. 1995 (on Bolshevik leader Larisa Reisner); "Stalin. Molodye gody." Limonka 28: Dec. 1995; "Nash Lenin." Limonka 30: Jan. 1996; "Pervye fashisty" (on the beginnings of the Italian Fascist Party). Limonka 37: Apr. 1996. The pseudonym "Polkovnik Ivan Chernyi" was used both by Limonov, and by Andrey Karagodin, also one of Dugin's "dis- ciples," and one of Limonka's first contributors.
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