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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, seeks to uncover the causes of a three-hour line for luxury clothes at the recently opened Luxe Fashion Center, which come down to intractable issues of supply and demand in the USSR.

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The Soviet technical intelligentsia learns Reaganomics on the “Chto? Gde? Kogda?” quiz show

“Chto? Gde? Kogda?” (What? Where? When?), a long-running highbrow quiz show targeted at the late Soviet technical intelligentsia, debates the economic principles underpinning Soviet private enterprise in the midst of perestroika’s economic reforms in 1988.

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"Masha the Lesbian Attacks the Officials"

A 1994 article, published in the weekly magazine Megapolis Express, on the early 1990s LGBTQ activism of M. Gessen (then known as Masha) in Russia.

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Georgii Deliev, "Mask Show [Maski Show]," 1991-2006.

A 1991 title screen for the sketch comedy program Maski-Show (Mask Show, 1991-2006) showing a stylized image of multiple people in clown make-up.

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Dmitri Vrubel’s “My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love,” 1990, Berlin Wall

Graffiti of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing on the Berlin Wall, from the East Berlin side.

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1995 poster for “The Beer Lovers’ Party.” Is this serious? This is serious!”

A poster, rendered in the style of Soviet agit-prop, but promoting the “Beer Lovers’ Party.” 

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