The com­pul­sory two years of mil­i­tary ser­vice was a rite of pas­sage for every Soviet guy. When one turned eigh­teen  —  unless for sick­ness or injury  —  it was time to be called in for the mil­i­tary life  —  two years in the bar­racks. Usu­ally away from home, this period of time was meant to train and edu­cate the men should […]

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Due to a series of not so for­tu­itous events ( the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917, the First World War, the over­all run­down of the young Soviet coun­try) women never had their needs attended to prop­erly. Under­wear was made, first and fore­most, for the work­ing class with no pref­er­en­tial treat­ment for the females so […]

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Build­ing binge com­menced in the Soviet Rus­sia in 1955 when the Cen­tral Com­mit­tee of the Com­mu­nist Party  issued a decree “About elim­i­na­tion of unnec­es­sary extrav­a­gance in archi­tec­ture”.  The pre-war, Stalin-approved  archi­tec­ture was notable for mon­u­men­tal columns, high-stud ceil­ings and indis­pens­able stucco mould­ings.  This  was a Soviet ver­sion of Empire style (or “Vam­pire”, coined by contemporaries) […]

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Dur­ing the Soviet times fash­ion was first and fore­most, an instru­ment of pro­pa­ganda of hard work atti­tudes and edu­ca­tion of good taste. There­fore the way peo­ple were dressed was very strictly reg­u­lated  –  just like any­thing else, fash­ion had to be “planned” and “approved”.
Offi­cially the most pop­u­lar designs were the clas­sic ones. Not only were they set […]

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