Perestroika by Nikita Skripkin and Locis (1998-1990)

Perestroika, the perestroika-themed puzzle game heralded a new weird age for Russian gaming, in the inexplicable attempt to represent the on-going political turmoil via the reductive means of traversing colorful islands to prosperity.

Kommersant’ by Vladimir Kharchenko and Rada Ltd, 1991.

The Ukrainian video game attempted to represent the rough transition to capitalism via a detailed, simulationist interface.

Front page of Komsomol'skaia pravda in new format

Front page of KP when the format of the printed version changed to adjust to 1990s print media reading habits and financial constraints

"Radost' so slezami na glazakh: obsuzhdaem proekt zakona o pechati"

Newspaper discussion of Press Law of 1990, Knizhnoe obozrenie, 30 March 1990

"The Current Moment and Our Tasks"

Andreeva's speech opening the first meeting of the All-Union COmmunist Party of Bolsheviks, 8 November 1991

Political discussion group "Perestroika"