New East Digital Archive

Soviet Union

Going it alone: can Russian culture survive international isolation?

Going it alone: can Russian culture survive international isolation?

Behind the irony curtain: can Russia learn to laugh at itself?

Behind the irony curtain: can Russia learn to laugh at itself?

That Seventies show: why Russian popular culture is stuck in the past

That Seventies show: why Russian popular culture is stuck in the past

Cult of personality exhibition opens in Moscow

Cult of personality exhibition opens in Moscow

Inside the machine: scenes from a factory floor in Yekaterinburg

Inside the machine: scenes from a factory floor in Yekaterinburg

The question: what does it mean to be a woman in Russia today?

The question: what does it mean to be a woman in Russia today?

Melnikov House to be turned into a museum

Melnikov House to be turned into a museum

Win, lose or draw: when sport met art in the Soviet Union

Win, lose or draw: when sport met art in the Soviet Union

Block party: Owen Hatherley celebrates a much-maligned housing project

Block party: Owen Hatherley celebrates a much-maligned housing project

Holy appropriate: why Pussy Riot and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour are a match made in heaven

Holy appropriate: why Pussy Riot and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour are a match made in heaven

Soviet-era film posters go on show at London gallery

Soviet-era film posters go on show at London gallery

Soviet images of Africans go on show at New York gallery

Soviet images of Africans go on show at New York gallery

The art of work: why the creative industries should embrace, not replace, the legacy of industry

The art of work: why the creative industries should embrace, not replace, the legacy of industry

Moscow plaques to commemorate victims of Soviet repression

Moscow plaques to commemorate victims of Soviet repression

New build: Russian planned towns and the foreign architects who build them

New build: Russian planned towns and the foreign architects who build them

Soviet kitchen: a culinary tour of Stalin's iconic cookbook

Soviet kitchen: a culinary tour of Stalin’s iconic cookbook

Alexander Zabrin exhibition celebrates Soviet jazz scene

Alexander Zabrin exhibition celebrates Soviet jazz scene

Valery Shchekoldin exhibition explores Soviet street life

Valery Shchekoldin exhibition explores Soviet street life