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“No Way to Live”: Imperial nostalgia as a post-Soviet Russian project
An excerpt from Stanislav Govorukhin's (1936-2018) influential documentary on late perestroika malaise and the ways out of it.
“We Are Building Communism!" / "We Are Building a New Russia!”
A 1993 billboard for Moscow’s Peresvet Trading Firm that plays on an existing Soviet-era billboard displayed just above it.
Revisiting Tchaikovsky’s Supposed Suicide: A Rebuttal
A 1993 article from the journal Gay, slaviane that disputed accounts of Tchaikovsky having killed himself out of fear of being publicly outed as a homosexual.
Marina Goldovskaya’s "Solovki Power" excavates painful historical memory
In 1988, journalist Marina Goldovskaya was able to release her documentary film "Solovki Power," which was dedicated to reconstructing long-suppressed memory of one of the USSR’s most notorious gulags: “Solovki.”
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The founding of the Memorial Society in the late 1980s
Three moments in the early history of Memorial, a human rights group established in Gorbachev-era Russia (and abolished by Putin’s government in 2022) to document and memorialize Soviet political repressions and abuses.
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“Iceberg,” an anti-Zyuganov television spot
An animated political ad from 1996 reminds viewers of the awfulness of the recent past, identifying Communist Gennady Zyuganov with Soviet brutality and empty sloganeering.
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