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Klei-Moment
Made by the German Henkel company, Moment-brand glue was a staple of post-Soviet hobbyists. It also became one of the preferred drugs among post-Soviet youth. The brand name alone became synonymous with huffing.
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Early “Vzgliad” parodies itself
A 1988 celebration of a year of the late- and post-Soviet youth program “Vzgliad,” where several sketch comedy artists parody and recapitulate its casual, sincere, and freewheeling style of television programming.
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An Online Babylon: Vavilon.ru
Vavilon, or Babylon, began as a loose group of young poets brought together by Dmitry Kuzmin in 1988. In the post-Soviet years, the group's almanac, and then website, became a driving force behind some of the most innovative poetry of the 1990s.
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Perestroika-era Russian Women Speak to US Women
A clip from one of many perestroika-era televised conversations between American and Soviet "regular people," in which they find common ground with the help of longtime Soviet propagandist and future star of liberal post-Soviet TV, Vladimir Pozner (1934-).
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The meaning of pluralism on “Vzgliad”
A conversation about pluralism between Evgeny Dodolev (1957-) and Alexander Liubimov (1962-), after an expose on chemistry lecturer and anti-glasnost activist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020).
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Soviet Engineers become Post-Soviet Aristocrats on TV
"Chto? Gde? Kogda?” (What? Where? When?) goes through an aristocratic overhaul and becomes an "intellectual casino.”
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