"From Underground to Actionism: The Russian Context" is a collection of articles from the conference of the same name, held at the University of Belgrade from September 29 to October 1, 2022. Against the backdrop of military action in Ukraine and the loss of innocent lives, arrests, fabricated trials, and mobilization in Russia, and the global collapse of humanism, literary and art scholars from Russia, the United States, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Montenegro, and Serbia gathered in Belgrade to share the only resources they have: Thought and Word, to demonstrate the power of a free spirit capable of resisting war and ideological propaganda. The book contains texts that examine the evolution of the avant-garde, the mythological space of the underground as the underworld, the unofficial poetic and artistic culture of the Soviet period (M. Krasilnikov, K. Kuzminsky, V. Erl, M. Eremin, A. Nik, D. Prigov, Boniface, E. Bulatov), ​​as well as research on Less