New East Digital Archive

Soviet Union

Letter from Brest: Owen Hatherley goes in search of the Soviet power structures of Belarus

Letter from Brest: Owen Hatherley goes in search of the Soviet power structures of Belarus

Michał Sierakowski

Michał Sierakowski

Yevgeniy Fiks show exploring Soviet homosexuality to open in New York

Yevgeniy Fiks show exploring Soviet homosexuality to open in New York

Fatal attraction: step inside the Lithuanian bunker where you can relive Soviet terrors

Fatal attraction: step inside the Lithuanian bunker where you can relive Soviet terrors

Soviet-era wallpaper with a lot of stories to tell

Soviet-era wallpaper with a lot of stories to tell

All made up: painted bodies in performance art since perestroika

All made up: painted bodies in performance art since perestroika

Field studies: behind the Soviet-era art collective that continues to defy the norm

Field studies: behind the Soviet-era art collective that continues to defy the norm

Everyday heroes: why is socialist realism back on the artistic agenda?

Everyday heroes: why is socialist realism back on the artistic agenda?

“There’s No Sex in the Soviet Union...”: Dash Arts hosts discussion

“There’s No Sex in the Soviet Union…”: Dash Arts hosts discussion

Introduction to Red Africa: when international socialism met the developing world

Introduction to Red Africa: when international socialism met the developing world

Art, image and ideology: the history of Soviet relations with Africa, told in pictures

Art, image and ideology: the history of Soviet relations with Africa, told in pictures

Faces in a crowd: a new film revisits the failed coup that was the final act of the Soviet Union

Faces in a crowd: a new film revisits the failed coup that was the final act of the Soviet Union

Evil empire: why is the post-Soviet world so obsessed with Star Wars?

Evil empire: why is the post-Soviet world so obsessed with Star Wars?

After image: I took a year-long road trip across 15 former Soviet states. Here's what I saw

After image: I took a year-long road trip across 15 former Soviet states. Here’s what I saw

Letter from: is post-Maidan Kiev the new Berlin or a city making its own future?

Letter from: is post-Maidan Kiev the new Berlin or a city making its own future?

Cold war cuisine: notes from the CCCP cookbook

Cold war cuisine: notes from the CCCP cookbook

Sweet nostalgia: why the ice cream brands of communist Russia are still a hot favourite

Sweet nostalgia: why the ice cream brands of communist Russia are still a hot favourite

Soviet food stories: drinking and dining behind the Iron Curtain

Soviet food stories: drinking and dining behind the Iron Curtain