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Oligarchs collude for Yeltsin in 1996

“A Way Out of the Dead End,” an op-ed co-authored by prominent Russian “oligarchs” and published in the Wall Street Journal-like daily “Kommersant” in April 1996, which announced their intention to use their considerable media resources to sink the Communist Gennady Zyuganov in the upcoming 1996 presidential election.

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Petrovich, the Soviet everyman, survives post-Soviet Russia in “Kommersant”

A collection of "Petrovich" cartoons by Andrei Bil’zho published in Russia’s “first business newspaper,” “Kommersant.” Bil’zho’s drawings depict a hapless and repulsive comic personage, born and raised in the Soviet era but trying to get his bearings in post-Soviet capitalism.

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Referendum 1993: the "Yes Yes No Yes" campaign

“Yes, yes, no yes [Da, Da, Net, Da],” an agitational propaganda campaign for the 1993 referendum, featuring the slogan "We are building a new Russia!"

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The Glasnost Booth during the USSR’s last celebration of the October Revolution

“Glas naroda” (The People’s Voice) was a booth installed in the middle of Moscow, into which random people could enter and speak their minds on camera. For this 1991 episode, the booth was set in the vicinity of the Kremlin on last anniversary of the October Revolution ever celebrated in the USSR.

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Soviet Nostalgia: “Old Songs About What Matters Most”

Arguably the most popular Soviet nostalgia project of the 1990s was Leonid Parfenov and Konstantin Ernst’s "Starye pesni o glavnom [Old Songs About What Matters Most]"

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“Field of Wonders”: The post-Soviet people’s show

A clip from the most-watched entertainment show of the 1990s, "Pole chudes [Field of Wonders],” featuring the post-Soviet “narod” (people) of regular folks engaged in a free-flowing relationship with both capitalism and Russia’s Central Television.

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