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Shining a Light on Soviet Jewish Life

by Matt Stromberg February 6, 2022June 24, 2022

Works by Bill Aron and Yevgeniy Fiks chronicle the experience of Soviet Jews who tried to leave their homeland.

Posted inHistory

The Photographers Who Captured Russia on the Eve of Its Revolution

Avatar photo by Billie Anania September 2, 2021September 2, 2021

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky and Maxim Dmitriev documented drastically different facets of Russia in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Posted inFilm

Excavating Rare and Suppressed Footage of the Soviet Era

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

MUBI gets Back in the USSR with a streaming series featuring archival documentaries by Sergei Loznitsa.

Posted inFilm

A TV Miniseries Brings the Chernobyl Disaster Back Into Public Discussion

by Svitlana Biedarieva July 12, 2019November 4, 2019

HBO and Sky UK’s Chernobyl draws from thorough research to evoke the fear and confusion surrounding the nuclear accident.

Posted inFilm

Werner Herzog Adds to Mikhail Gorbachev’s Endlessly Strange Pop Culture Legacy

by Lucy Tiven June 14, 2019November 4, 2019

In the documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog finds nostalgia for a lost past.

Posted inArt

Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race

Avatar photo by Amelia Soth December 24, 2018December 21, 2021

Vintage Soviet postcards reveal a sophisticated political project, one that uses the allure of nostalgia to create a vision of a utopian, space-age future.

Julia Kristeva speaking at the National Library of France in 2016 (photo by Guiness88, via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inIn Brief

The Spy Who Taught Me: Bulgaria Accuses Julia Kristeva of Cold War Espionage

Avatar photo by Zachary Small May 14, 2018

The Franco-Bulgarian scholar, philosopher, and psychoanalyst has been accused of being a spy for the Bulgarian government in the early 1970s.

Posted inArt

The Newly Expanded Wende Museum Offers a Nuanced Perspective on the Cold War

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 11, 2018

Amid continued misconceptions about the Cold War and Russia, the mission of the Wende Museum is vital.

Posted inBooks

Ukraine’s Monumental Soviet-Era Mosaics

by Claire Voon December 28, 2017July 27, 2021

Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine’s Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history.

Posted inBooks

The Utopian Leisure of Soviet Sanatoriums

by Claire Voon December 8, 2017July 9, 2021

Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.

Posted inArt

An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children’s Books

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 4, 2017August 19, 2021

Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children’s Books, 1917-1953 is an online interactive from Princeton University exploring children’s books in the Soviet Union.

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The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 19, 2017May 19, 2017

The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.

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