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Home » USSR

Tag: USSR

Posted inFilm

Navalny feels like a Soviet-era infomercial

by Dmitry Samarov May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

I left feeling hollow and angry. Like I’d been manipulated using methods pioneered and perfected under the long-gone Soviet regime of my childhood.

Posted inArts & Culture

Nureyev tells the epic story of the dancer’s extraordinary life and tumultuous times

by Irene Hsiao April 18, 2019August 18, 2021

“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.”

Posted inArts & Culture

The new Holodomor drama Sickle isn’t sharp enough to draw much blood

by Tony Adler July 12, 2018August 18, 2021

The tragic Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s remains an abstraction in Abbey Fenbert’s new play.

Posted inArts & Culture

Don’t celebrate the Russian Revolution

by Dmitry Samarov November 8, 2017August 18, 2021

Two new art exhibits try to recast a bloody, inhumane time period in a positive light.

Posted inBlogs

How The Americans gets away with misrepresenting Russia

by Dmitry Samarov March 23, 2016August 18, 2021

It’s pretty simple: by being a great TV show.

Marchers in Kiev on November 23 commemorate the victims of the Stalin-era Holodomor famine in Ukraine.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

In Kiev and across Ukraine, a bitter history plays out

by Deanna Isaacs December 10, 2013February 24, 2022

A permanent collection at Chicago’s Ukrainian National Museum sheds light on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

A Soviet despot's shit rolling downhill
Posted inArts & Culture

The Letters is more than just Marx on a page

by Tony Adler December 5, 2012August 19, 2021

Writers’ Theatre’s The Letters is set in 1930s USSR

Posted inArts & Culture

Cold War frenemies

by Tony Adler August 25, 2011August 19, 2021

Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods

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