The center of the post-Soviet book trade established itself in the corridors of the enormous stadium built for the 1980s summer Olympic Games in Moscow. It was chaotic, even dangerous, but also presented an embarrassment of literary riches.

In 1994, Alexander Solzhenitsyn staged a theatrical return to Russia, flying from America to Magadan, then returning by train from Vladivostok to Moscow. The journey and the salvific importance Solzhenitsyn attached to it soon became the target of much derision, as well as some praise.

Interview with LGBTQ activist—and sometime spouse of far-right philosopher Alexander Dugin (1962-)—Evgenia Debryanskaya (1953-) in the newspaper Argumenty i fakty.

A clip from an episode on male prostitution featured on the talk show Pro eto (About That, 1997-2000) hosted by journalist Yelena Khanga (1962-).

An annotated map of gay locales—cafes, bars, nightclubs, saunas, and cruising areas or pleshki—published in a 1997 issue of the gay magazine Argo.

An undated 1990s-era piece on David Bowie, focusing on the star’s bisexuality, in the glossy color gay magazine Mal’chishnik (Stag Party).