“No Way to Live”: Imperial nostalgia as a post-Soviet Russian project

An excerpt from Stanislav Govorukhin's (1936-2018) influential documentary on late perestroika malaise and the ways out of it.

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"Our boys" fight against “fascist” Baltic independence

"Nashi [Our Boys]," journalist Alexander Nevzorov's propagandistic documentary about the Latvian and Lithuanian divisions of the Soviet OMON (special forces), who fought local independence movements in early 1991.

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Primetime hypnotic tele-healing with Anatoly Kashpirovsky

Anatoly Kashpirovsky (1939-), a “psychic” authority on perestroika-era "new thinking," uses the power of suggestion to heal the Soviet people of ailments physical and spiritual.

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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.

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Cover for “Red Hogwash” [“Krasnaia Burda”], issue 1, October 1990 by G. Malyshev.

The first issue of Red Hogwash's cover depicts a man in the costume of the Statue of Liberty lighting a cigarette with the torch.

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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.

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