In 1956 an array of British design­ers were try­ing to expand their mar­ket share into the Soviet Union. So a fash­ion week of some sort took place  —  in Moscow, Gorky Park, twice daily the shows took place. What a huge suc­cess it was! Every day it was a full house, and the pub­lic were in love […]

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…and we are back on air after our short break! Sorry it was unan­nounced, but very much needed  —  and we are delighted to recon­nect with you again. We’ve got lots of great stuff com­ing  —  from kids sum­mer camps through to some amaz­ing ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phy as well as we shall look at each decade in detail  —  what 1940s, 1950s, […]

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The Moscow under­ground metro sys­tem, opened in 1935, is well known for its ornate dec­o­ra­tions, out­stand­ing archi­tec­ture and art­work. Most of that art is in the social­ist real­ism style, which has its pur­pose of rein­forc­ing the goals of social­ism and com­mu­nism. In 1932 Joseph Stalin intro­duced the decree “On the Recon­struc­tion of Lit­er­ary and Art […]

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When the new Soviet coun­try was born, the peo­ple were promised a won­der­ful future under the social­ism  —  just a few more years, the bill­boards boasted  —  and we’ll live in a glo­ri­ous state. How­ever the early days were more than gloomy: the  run­down econ­omy, dis­ori­ented soci­ety, the reek of fear and uncer­tainty  —  and that clearly can be seen through […]

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This is prob­a­bly one of the length­i­est and most con­tro­ver­sial top­ics to attempt, yet it is very impor­tant for our blog to  answer  —  or at least to raise  this ques­tion. If you have been fol­low­ing us for a lit­tle while, you would know that by mid 1980s the atmos­phere in Rus­sia was tense. The miracle […]

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The unof­fi­cial cap­i­tal of Siberia, the city of Novosi­birsk was founded in 1893 with the ini­tial pop­u­la­tion of only 8,000 peo­ple. By the time of the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917,  it grew to the pop­u­la­tion size of 80,000. The name, lit­er­ally mean­ing New Siber­ian City, was adopted in 1926  —  and since then, the town […]

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