Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse, particularly in authoritarian states.

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes
On Naming Creators
On "Post-Soviet"
On Naming Cities
On Graffiti vs. Street Art
On Technique
On Transliteration
On Methods
Introduction
Part I: An Oral History of Post-Soviet Graffiti
1. The Origins of Soviet and Post-Soviet Public Art
2. External Interference
3. Artistic Political Backlash
Part II: Fundamental Questions about Post-Soviet Graffiti
4. Why the Public Space Is Conducive to Political Graffiti
5. Signs and Symbols as a Form of Political Expression
6. Street Art as Text
Part III: Interpreting Graffiti
7. The Political
8. The Social
9. Who Controls Discourse?
Conclusion: The Future of Political Graffiti
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Alexis Lerner is an assistant professor of political science at the US Naval Academy.