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Ekho Moskvy on the 1991 Putsch
Live coverage of the GKChP putsch in August 1991 from the Echo of Moscow radio station, demonstrating the chaos of the moment, the putschists' failure to control their message, and the power of a newly independent Russian media.
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Rebuilding Russia
When it was published in 1990, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's (1918-2008) traditionalist prescription for pulling Russia out of its difficulties was seen as out of touch with the times. Since then, many of the ideas the author expounded have become commonplaces in the culture of Russian revanchism.
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A Coup d'État Holds a Press Conference
A press conference held by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP in Russian), the group of hardline government officials who attempted a coup d’état overthrowing Mikhail Gorbachev. This press conference, held on 20 August 1991, shows the coup coming apart at the seams.
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Tsvetaeva and Parnok
Article on the affair between poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok in LGBTQ magazine Риск
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“Vzgliad” on the GKChP
Clips of “Vzgliad”'s reports during the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. These include the hosts’ holing up in the seat of Russia’s new parliament, the White House alongside its defenders and celebrities, including the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007).
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"Our boys" fight against “fascist” Baltic independence
"Nashi [Our Boys]," journalist Alexander Nevzorov's propagandistic documentary about the Latvian and Lithuanian divisions of the Soviet OMON (special forces), who fought local independence movements in early 1991.
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