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This article looks at the life and career of the Leningrad Non-Conformist artist, Vladimir Shagin, and examines the way in which the underlying conceptions, compositions, and pictorial devices that he developed in his works paid homage to, and derived inspiration from, the creative practice of Paul Cezanne. The author argues also that Shagin's art, as read through Cezanne's work, reveals Neoclassicism as a source for the intellectual and formal independence of the Leningrad nonconformists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces back the practices of social control over renegade youth and the strategies of the control's legitimization based on the case study of Joseph Brodsky's affair (1964) in Leningrad. Brodsky was prosecuted as a part of a non-conformist youth milieu; his case can be interpreted as an attempt to manage, identify, and destroy the milieus of non-conformist young people. Secret police, which will be viewed as a primary agent of social control, used several strategies to destroy such undesirable youth milieus. Though formally he was accused as a social parasite, the investigators wrote their own version of Brodsky's biography in the file, considering his past and his private networks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]