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.
Tag: USSR
Posted inArts & Culture
Nureyev tells the epic story of the dancer’s extraordinary life and tumultuous times
“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.”
Posted inArts & Culture
The new Holodomor drama Sickle isn’t sharp enough to draw much blood
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
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
It’s pretty simple: by being a great TV show.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
In Kiev and across Ukraine, a bitter history plays out
A permanent collection at Chicago’s Ukrainian National Museum sheds light on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Letters is more than just Marx on a page
Writers’ Theatre’s The Letters is set in 1930s USSR
Posted inArts & Culture
Cold War frenemies
Refighting the Cold War in Timeline’s A Walk in the Woods