Published in the 13 March 1988 issue of the daily newspaper “Sovetskaia Rossiia” (Soviet Russia), this letter by chemistry lecturer and Stalinist apologist Nina Andreeva (1938-2020) sparked tens of thousands of public responses, revealing that conservative currents in the Communist Party and beyond now faced strong resistance from a glasnost-empowered public.

A 1991 essay by Gennady Trifonov, a gay former Soviet inmate, published in the journal Gay, slaviane (a pun on the exclamation Gei, slaviane!—“Hey, Slavs!”) in 1993.

In 1992, the Beatles superfan and rock-and-roll activist Kolia Vasin (1945-2018) petitioned the St. Petersburg authorities to establish a public “John Lennon Temple of Rock-n-Roll.” 

A public service announcement on AIDS prevention published in a 1993 issue of the gay magazine Impulse.

A mean-spirited Pravda piece from 16 April 1994 about Slava Mogutin’s attempt, four days earlier, to register marriage to his partner, Robert Filippini.

The album art for the 1992 LP Impossible Love (Nevozmozhnaia liubov’) by Vova and the Organ of Internal Affairs (Vova i organ vnutrennikh del).