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Movie Posters of the Soviet Avant-Garde

These movie posters from the 1920s are an electrifying record of a cultural spirit and mood from the pre-Stalin days of the Soviet Union... ...

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The Collapse of the Soviet Union in Pictures

Despite its "permanently revisionist stance in international affairs," the state had become moribund. The revolution was over. ...

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How The East Was Won: When Leonid Brezhnev Met Chuck Connors

Leonid Brezhnev, the fifth leader of the USSR, ran across the tarmac to bear-hug his favourite actor, and star of his favourite TV show The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, who then lifted the Soviet leader clear off the ground. ...

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The Lada Riva and Niva: Iconic Soviet Cars that Outlasted the Empire

The car did not pass any modern safely tests, had a reputation for maximum affordability and minimal reliability, and was beloved by thousands of Russians ...

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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...

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The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

"It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...

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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...

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Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photography wasn’t given credence as a legitimate art form and even classic Soviet photography wasn’t included in museum exhibitions. In order to get their work seen, photographers started their own clubs, exchanging work with other clubs and organizing their own exhibitions and festivals. ...

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The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

'As air escaped from the [spacecraft’s air lock], the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster’s claw'. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began to worry... ...

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‘A City of Half-Crazy People’ – Photographs of Leningrad (St Petersburg) in 1961

"This is a city of half-crazy people... there are few places where you'll find so many gloomy, harsh and strange influences on the soul of a man as in St Petersburg." (Fyodor Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment'). ...

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After Chernobyl : The Nuclear Suicide Squad (1986)

In 1986 Professor Sir Frederick Warner created Volunteers for Ionising Radiation, a platoon of over-65s who would help in a British nuclear disaster ...

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Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

"I felt that the time of ‘change’ had come, and I needed to go and shoot” - Igor Mukhin ...

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