Nikolay Oleynikov

Nikolay OLEYNIKOV (1976) is a Moscow based artist and activist, member of Chto Delat?, editor for the Chto Delat? newspaper, member of the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine (2011), co-founder of the Learning Film Group and May Congress of Creative Workers, and member of the Arkady Kots band. Since 2013 Oleynikov has been a tutor at The School of Rose (School of Engaged Art Chto Delat) and a proud member of the board of ROSA’S House of Culture, a multidisciplinary hub for new practices of engaged culture in St.Petersburg.
Oleynikov is also the author of the book SEX of the OPPRESSED (FreeMarxistPress 2013, PS-Guelph 2016) and an editor for ArtsEverywhere's section on New Russian Colonialism and an upcoming series of publications entitled Tracing the Now.

Ways of Seeing New Colonialisms: Writing on and from Post-Soviet Territories

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Ways of Seeing: Russian Colonialisms (1/8)

Ways of Seeing New Colonialisms: Writing on and from Post-Soviet Territories

By Nikolay Oleynikov

How can we analyse Russia’s renewed colonialism and global expansionism that affects the geopolitical tectonic shifts of today? Is Putin the successor of the USSR or of Tsarist Russia? How

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Queer City (1/20)

Sex of the Oppressed

By Nikolay Oleynikov

Sex of the Oppressed was first published in Russian by the Marxist Free Press (2013). What follows is the author’s Foreword to the book. The English translation by Jonathan Brooks