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"Gone with the Wind"—The post-Soviet Sequels
A series of five collectively authored sequels to Margaret Mitchell's bestselling “Gone with the Wind” (1936). Writing in Minsk, Belarus, the anonymous authors published under the pseudonym Dzhuliia Khilpatrik (“Julia Hillpatrick”) and released titles like “We'll Call Her Scarlett,” “Rhett Butler's Son,” and “Scarlett's Last Love”
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The Russian Booker—Scandals
A series of five articles scandalously decrying the Russian Booker, the new literary prize imported from England.
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"A Way Out of the Dead End"
The open letter that became known as the “Letter of the Thirteen,” signed by thirteen of post-Soviet Russia’s most powerful businessmen ahead of the 1996 presidential election, reflected the power of capital in post-Soviet politics.
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Olympic Stadium Book Market
The center of the post-Soviet book trade established itself in the corridors of the enormous stadium built for the 1980s summer Olympic Games in Moscow. It was chaotic, even dangerous, but also presented an embarrassment of literary riches.
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Putting the "Spotlight" on an experimental three-hour line for Soviet luxury clothes
Prozhektor Perestroiki [Perestroika's Spotlight], a glasnost-era televised investigative journalism project, investigates a three-hour line for luxury clothes at the recently opened Luxe Fashion Center, where the reporters discover the problem of supply and demand in the USSR.
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Soviet technical intelligentsia learns Reaganomics on the Chto? Gde? Kogda? gameshow
<i>Chto? Gde? Kogda?</i> [<i>What? Where? When?</i>], a long-running high-brow quiz show for the late Soviet technical intelligentsia, debates the economic principles of Soviet private enterprise in the heat of Perestroika’s economic reforms in 1988
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