Losing the Soviet nation on "KVN"
The winter 1992 opening broadcast of the amateur variety and improv contest show “KVN” (“the Club of the Jolly and Resourceful”). Filmed just a few months after the dissolution of the USSR, the episode features former Soviet university teams lamenting the new national borders appearing all around them.
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Perestroika-era Russian Women Speak to US Women
A clip from one of many perestroika-era televised conversations between American and Soviet "regular people," in which they find common ground with the help of longtime Soviet propagandist and future star of liberal post-Soviet TV, Vladimir Pozner (1934-).
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“500 Days: Program Summary,” a special issue of "Komsomolskaya pravda"
A special issue of the long-running Soviet daily "Komsomolskaya pravda" dedicated to economist Stanislav Shatalin's (1934-1997) "500 days" plan for economic reform under Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022).
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Evgeny Kiselev discusses the 21 September – 4 October 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis on "Itogi"
Excepts from first episode of Itogi with Ev. Kiselev on NTV
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Kommersant’ by Vladimir Kharchenko and Rada Ltd, 1991.
The Ukrainian video game attempted to represent the rough transition to capitalism via a detailed, simulationist interface.
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