On the whole, the architecture of the former Soviet Union was uniform and dreary – but a recently published photography book reveals that there were some gems, from a ‘flying saucer’ building to an office block that resembles a game of Jenga. Soviet Cities: Labour, Life & Leisure was created by Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov … Read more
On the whole, the architecture of the former Soviet Union was uniform and dreary – but a recently published photography book reveals that there were some gems, from a ‘flying saucer’ building to an office block that resembles a game of Jenga. Soviet Cities: Labour, Life & Leisure was created by Russian photographer Arseniy Kotov … Read more
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev blames TV show Dallas for the fall of the USSR because it opened people’s eyes to western lifestyles Dave Stewart said Mikhail Gorbachev told him that the 1980s soap opera Dallas ‘had more effect’ in bringing about Soviet collapse than anything else Gorbachev said the show opened people’s eyes to Western … Read more
There is a photograph taken in 1937 which shows Stalin walking along the Moscow canal with three lieutenants. Yet in a version issued 12 months later, only two can be seen. The missing man is Nikolai Yezhov, a Soviet commissar who, executed in a purge, had vanished not just from office, but from the photo, too. … Read more