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Yury Gagarin’s Pop-Culture Legacy

Video:

Yury Gagarin’s Pop-Culture Legacy

“Freedom to build”

‘Map of the City’ by Valeria Laken

Short story:

‘Map of the City’ by Valeria Laken

‘Rome, 1978′ by David Bezmozgis

Short story:

‘Rome, 1978′ by David Bezmozgis

Sex Please, We’re Russian

Sex Please, We’re Russian

If/then. If/then. If/then. If/then.

Sozialismus (capitalism is more furtive)

Cannibalism became commonplace…

Cannibalism became commonplace…

The Banality of Sauron

Oberiu Underground

Oberiu Underground

‘The Road’ by Vasily Grossman

Book excerpt:

‘The Road’ by Vasily Grossman

The Soviet Moment

The Soviet Moment

Video:

In Donetsk, New Landmarks Rise From The Dust

Zinovy Zinik’s serial dream

Preserving sovereignty in Ukrainian-Russian relations

‘There is no city on earth so tourist-oriented that has so much to be quiet about.’

Planning the (Soviet) invasion of Afghanistan

‘Bohuslav Martinu was the out and out cosmopolitan – a lethal term of abuse under both Fascists and Stalinists, whose sustained attention he was therefore fortunate to escape’

Changing the past

The defeat of Communism: a war unknown by the victor?