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Pro Eto. "The Sexual Lives of the Disabled"
Clip from "Pro Eto," a talk show hosted by Yelena Khanga, which brings together 1990s-era interest in sex with the increasing visibility of disabled people—and the disintegration of state institutions previously entrusted with their care.
View ArtifactEarly “Vzgliad” parodies itself
A 1988 celebration of a year of the late- and post-Soviet youth program “Vzgliad,” where several sketch comedy artists parody and recapitulate its casual, sincere, and freewheeling style of television programming.
View ArtifactA Coup d'État Holds a Press Conference
A press conference held by the State Committee on the State of Emergency (GKChP in Russian), the group of hardline government officials who attempted a coup d’état overthrowing Mikhail Gorbachev. This press conference, held on 20 August 1991, shows the coup coming apart at the seams.
View Artifact“Vzgliad” on the GKChP
Clips of “Vzgliad”'s reports during the attempted anti-Gorbachev coup of August 1991. These include the hosts’ holing up in the seat of Russia’s new parliament, the White House alongside its defenders and celebrities, including the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007).
View ArtifactPutting the “Spotlight” on an experimental three-hour line for Soviet luxury clothes
“Prozhektor perestroiki” (Perestroika's Spotlight), a glasnost-era televised investigative journalism project, seeks to uncover the causes of a three-hour line for luxury clothes at the recently opened Luxe Fashion Center, which come down to intractable issues of supply and demand in the USSR.
View Artifact“No Way to Live”: Imperial nostalgia as a post-Soviet Russian project
An excerpt from Stanislav Govorukhin's (1936-2018) influential documentary on late perestroika malaise and the ways out of it.
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