Explore: Year » 1989

Primetime hypnotic tele-healing with Anatoly Kashpirovsky

Anatoly Kashpirovsky, the psychic and guru of Perestroika era's "new thinking" uses the power of suggestion to heal the Soviet people from all ailments physical and spiritual

View Artifact

The Collective Society “Kartinnik”[”Picture-man”] with B.U.Kashkin in front of painted Ural Electro-Technical Institute rubbish pins. 1993.

The bearded B. U. Kashkin stands in front of a set of trashbins which have been painted with bright, colorful scenes of trees, butterflies and flowers. Pigeons are digging through the garbage and mud apparent throughout the site.

View Artifact

Manager Board Game 1st edition

A square, indigo board game similar to Monopoly, but reading "Manager". Manager, which became the most successful Monopoly-like made in the former Soviet Union, initially presented itself as scientific and rational in its promise of capitalist success.

View Artifact
No preview available

“Dictatorship of Conscience” (Draft)

Play by Mikhail Shatrov that opened at the Lenin Komsomol Theather in Moscow, Feb. 1986

View Artifact

Chumak sends morning healing vibes to perestroika-era audiences

A healing seance with TV-psychic Allan Chumak in 1989, during the morning newscast, “120 Minutes.” Works on people, their drinking water and their creams.

View Artifact

Perestroika 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 long-time Soviet propagandist and future star of liberal post-Soviet TV, Vladimir Pozner

View Artifact