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There are 26 item(s) tagged with the keyword "soviet era".

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1. Taking Names and Telling Tales

As Faulkner put it, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” A truth experienced in this remote village.

Tags: soviet era, purges, nkvd, rural life, village
2. Security Guard Doodles

A security guard at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center was fired after defacing a $1 million Soviet-era painting. 

Tags: art, soviet era, painting, Moscow, Yekaterinburg
3. Even Communists Like Rock

A very uncharacteristic tweet about a famous Soviet rockstar has many Russians scratching their heads. Apparently, even communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov can't resist a catchy tune. 

Tags: twitter, perestroika, soviet era, music, rock music, Tsoy, communists, communism
4. The Past in the Past: Reading a Book about Soviet Archaeology

A sixty-year-old Christmas present reveals how Soviet archaeologists perceived their craft.

Tags: soviet era, ussr, hermitage, history, archaeology
5. Funky Soviet Keepsakes

Citizens of the Soviet Union amassed many things, but of all the collectibles, perhaps the most popular was the badge (znachok).

Tags: soviet union, soviet era, badge, collectibles, collector's items, lapel pin, emblem, znachki, znachok
6. The Soviet Creative

In the Soviet period, artists were treated with esteem and lived comfortably, but their privileged position also required sacrifice.

Tags: samizdat, socialist realism, artwork, art, literature, censorship, soviet era, soviet union, creative, artist
7. New Economic Policy

In the Soviet era, NEP had always been regarded as a strange, only vaguely understood, and not very sensible chapter in Soviet history: a pause between the heroic Civil War and the no less heroic Five-Year Plans.

Tags: economy, soviet era, lenin, nep
8. You Think You Know Russia? Perhaps Russia Knows You...

Get out your aluminum foil hats, folks. It seems the Soviets got ESP down decades ago.

Tags: conspiracies, history, ussr, extrasensory perception, esp, soviet era, soviet experiments
9. Taste of the Holidays

For several generations of Russians, few things signal Christmas and New Year’s better than tangerines. So we offer a delicious holiday cake built around this fruit.

Tags: soviet era, abkhazia, cake
10. Cheburashka to Hit the Big Screen

One of the Soviet Union's most iconic characters is set to make his movie debut.

Tags: children, culture, soviet era, television, film

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