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Perestroika by Nikita Skripkin and Locis (1998-1990)
Perestroika, the perestroika-themed puzzle game heralded a new weird age for Russian gaming, in the inexplicable attempt to represent the on-going political turmoil via the reductive means of traversing colorful islands to prosperity.
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Kommersant’ by Vladimir Kharchenko and Rada Ltd, 1991.
The Ukrainian video game attempted to represent the rough transition to capitalism via a detailed, simulationist interface.
View ArtifactGorbachev speaks with state media leaders (Draft)
Gorbachev’s Speech before a Gathering of State Media Leaders, March 14, 1986
View ArtifactFront page of Komsomol'skaia pravda in new format
Front page of KP when the format of the printed version changed to adjust to 1990s print media reading habits and financial constraints
View ArtifactLetter department workers process mail from citizens writing about the upcoming 26th Party Conference (Draft)
Photograph of letter department workers at the Soviet Union's TV Guide
View Artifact"Radost' so slezami na glazakh: obsuzhdaem proekt zakona o pechati"
Newspaper discussion of Press Law of 1990, Knizhnoe obozrenie, 30 March 1990
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