Explore:
1992-1993 School math calendar
1992-1993 Math calendar intended for a secondary school student with a photograph of Viktor Tsoi, leader of the rock band Kino on its front cover.
View Artifact
The Rise of Public Opinion Polling
A collection of data presentation venues of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). After the fall of the Soviet Union, VTsIOM became the Russian Federation’s most important polling organization.
View ArtifactNovikov's Shocking Coming Out (Draft)
During an interview, Timur Novikov and Sergey "Afrika" Bugaev talk about their otherwise unconfessed homosexuality in an intentionally shocking way.
View Artifact
“It’s all Chubais’ fault!”
The political satire show "Kukly [Puppets]" mocks Anatoly Chubais, a key architect of the disastrous early-1990s Russian privatization push known as "shock therapy." From Episode 47, “Hostages,” which aired on NTV on 27 January 1996.
View Artifact
“500 Days: Program Summary"
A summary of the "500 Days" economic recovery program featured in a special 1990 issue of the daily paper "Komsomol'skaya pravda."
View Artifact
Soviet audiences devour the Brazilian soap opera "Escrava Isaura"
Stills from the first episode of the Brazilian soap opera "Escrava Isaura," which aired in Brazil in 1976-77 and in the USSR/ Russia in 1988-90. In this first episode, aired on Soviet Central Television on 16 October, 1988, it is revealed that the show's title character, Isaura, is not the niece of the wealthy Almeida family—but instead a "slave" with a “mulatto [sic]” mother and a Portuguese father.
View Artifact