Soviet identity and Jewish Emigration on "KVN"

An excerpt from the 1992 season of the amateur variety improv competition show, “KVN,” in which an Israeli team of recent Russian émigrés competes against their former compatriots in Moscow.

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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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The Future of Crimea

Campaign documents surrounding the 1991-92 referenda on the independence of Crimea, Ukraine.

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The Non-governmental Control Committee, Barricade, Bolshaia Nikitinskaia street, 1998

Photograph of artists barricading Bolshaia Nikitinskaia street

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Dmitri Vrubel, "My God, Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love", 1990, graffiti, Berlin Wall, East Berlin.

Graffiti of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing on the East Berlin wall.

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Poster of the The Beer Lovers' Party, Text: “Beer Lovers’ Party: Is this serious? This is serious!” 1995.

Poster in the style of Soviet agit-prop promoting the Beer Lovers' Party

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