The Khrushchev’s Thaw was to cover many aspects of the Soviet life, and fash­ion was  one of them. The deci­sion to allow the Soviet fash­ion design­ers to learn off their French coun­ter­parts was made as high as at the gov­ern­ment level, which implic­itly put fash­ion above pol­i­tics or inter­na­tional ide­o­log­i­cal regimes. The colour of the […]

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In accor­dance with the offi­cial his­tory the Sec­ond World War  (in Rus­sia called ‘the Great Patri­otic War’) was com­menced on the Soviet ter­ri­tory by Ger­many: the treach­er­ous attack on 22 June, 1941when they invaded into the USSR.  This offi­cial ver­sion of the Soviet Gov­ern­ment is writ­ten in every his­tory book.  At the same time there […]

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It doesn’t mat­ter how high you lift your leg. The tech­nique is about trans­parency, sim­plic­ity and mak­ing an earnest attempt
Says Mikhail Barysh­nikov, the famous dancer, actor, pro­ducer and pho­tog­ra­pher  —  a tal­ent for whom the USSR was not big enough.

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A small col­lec­tion of pho­tos from two pho­tog­ra­phy books pub­lished in the 1980s in the USSR. All pho­tographs from this set are by ama­teur photo artists from the republics of Ukraine (Ama­teur Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1986) and Moldovia (Mol­da­vian Artis­tic Pho­tog­ra­phy, 1985). Please remem­ber to click on the mag­ni­fy­ing glass icon to see the full-size image.

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Just like any­where else in the world, the Soviet young­sters wanted to social­ize, to lis­ten to the music and to dance. The night­clubs were unheard of  –  any­thing of that kind would have been announced as pro­mot­ing debauch­ery or morally wrong lifestyle habits. So the best one would hope for were the dis­cothe­ques  –  the spe­cial dance occa­sions, organized […]

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Just like John Lennon or Elton John, in 1970s David Bowie was an iconic fig­ure of the West­ern music scene. Nick­named Chameleon of Pop for his flam­boy­ant out­fits, pale make up and eccen­tric tunes, David Bowie made a train tour of Rus­sia, all the way from Vladi­vos­tok to Moscow, eigh­teen days in a sleeper.  Back […]

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