My iPad has really got me read­ing recently. On iBooks almost all of clas­sic lit­er­a­ture is free, so I am read­ing a book by Arthur Conan Doyle   —  The Adven­tures of Sher­lock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip. There was a pas­sage that struck me as remark­able (or, as Conan Doyle would put it, rather sin­gu­lar):
One […]

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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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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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