Explore: Year » 1991

The World Made of Plastic Has Won

Egor Letov performs his song “Moia oborona” (My defense), during his “concert in the hero city Leningrad,” part of Grazhdanskaia oborona’s 1994 tour Russkii proryv (Russian breakthrough).

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Olga. Love and Faith Are Not Dead

Profile of a post-Soviet lesbian survivor of Soviet-era anti-LGBTQ repressions

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Expropriation of the Territory of Art, "E.T.A.—Text," 1991

In 1991, the actionist group E.T.A. (standing for Expropriation of the Territory of Art”) staged a performance in which they used their bodies to form an obscene word in front of the Kremlin.

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The Future of Crimea

Campaign documents surrounding the 1991-92 referenda on the independence of Crimea, Ukraine.

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Tanks in Lithuania

Coverage of Soviet tanks rolling into the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius in January 1991 from Pravda, the Russian Communist Party’s press organ since 1911.

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Lenin Was a Mushroom

An excerpt from the famous episode of the TV show "Piatoe koleso" (The Fifth Wheel) in which the experimental musician and performer Sergey Kuryokhin (1954-1996) nearly convinced Soviet audiences that "Lenin was a mushroom."

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