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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One of the main criti­sisms of the Soviet Union now, from an every day per­spec­tive, was the huge deficit of every­thing. The planned econ­omy failed to sup­ply a con­stant flow of goods nec­es­sary for the well being of peo­ple. It was not the mat­ter of inca­pac­ity  —  no, the means cer­tainly allowed to build space shut­tles or […]

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Ear­lier this year, a unique in its pecu­liar­ity museum was opened in Novosi­birsk, the Siber­ian cap­i­tal of Rus­sia. Pri­vately owned, this museum offers an insight into the days long gone, yet long­ing to be remem­bered: a col­lec­tion of the Soviet every­day arti­facts; sim­ple things that still mat­ter.
Please wel­come our new author Maria Yukhi­menko, who has […]

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As pre­vi­ously stated, the major­ity of peo­ple in the USSR lived in the apart­ments. Unfor­tu­nately, due to the the time con­straints, they had to be built in a speedy rather than com­fort­able man­ner. After the war, when accom­mo­da­tion was extremely scarce, a three bed­room flat could accom­mo­date up to 16 peo­ple (four aver­age fam­i­lies), with […]

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Accord­ing to the Soviet pro­pa­ganda, every­thing which wasn’t invented by the ancient Chi­nese, was invented by the Soviet engi­neers in the USSR. Ah, they were said to invent the best weaponry, the best tanks and the best cars.
In real­ity, of course, the path of inven­tions had a very mod­er­ate devel­op­ment but in order to keep the […]

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1981. “Milk” (rus. Moloko). In the front a woman pushes the blue pram with a ‘win­dow’. It was incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to buy this sort of prams in those times.

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