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The Soviet Children's Books That Broke the Rules of Propaganda
How folk tales and traditional life snuck into avant-garde kids' books in the 1930s.
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The war game that could have ended the world
A military exercise staged 35 years ago this week almost triggered World War Three. Previously secret documents now reveal what happened. By Richard Hollingham.
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The Sharashka Phenomenon
As many older Russians undoubtedly remember, by the early 1970s, the culture of underground or samizdat literature in the Soviet Union had evolved into a highly risky but established system for disseminating information among the dissident community… By Asif Siddiqi. (Mar. 10, 2011)
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The Bootleg Video Vans of the Soviet Union
I learned English—and Western culture—watching American movies in smoky minibuses.
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The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born 100 years ago today, did more than anyone to bring the Soviet Union to its knees.
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The Black Disk of the Sun
Boris Dralyuk appreciates a “riveting political biography” of Mikhail Sholokhov, “Stalin’s Scribe” by Brian J. Boeck.
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Red Army Blues
The Waterboys
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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here
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The Russian Venus Landers
Given the intense temperatures and pressures of Venus, it is indeed impressive that Russian engineers were able to successfully land vehicles there 10 times during the 1970s and 1980s. These were Venera 7 to 14, and Vega 1 and 2 which deployed landers and balloon-born instrument packages.
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Back to the U.S.S.R.: Russophobia is at its peak in Georgia
Quebec journalist Paule Robitaille undertakes a journey through the former Soviet Union, where she lived from 1990 to 1996. As we approach next month’s first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she examines how Moscow’s aggression is changing the lives of these people and the fragile equilibrium within these countries.
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