On September 19, 1935, a Soviet coal miner named Alexey Stakhanov mines 227 tons of coal. His work that day, beatified by the Soviet state as the saint to guide the new worker into the future, became such an ideal that the term Stakhanovite is...
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On July 10, 1989 Soviet coal miners struck over their low wages and unsafe conditions. This was the most important internal labor uprising contributing to the fall of the Soviet.
To continue what we started last night, I really don't remember what Soviet film this was from, but boy is it full of good translations to use at the beginning.
The famous meeting between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev that became known as "The Kitchen Debate," Moscow, July 24, 1959.
The latest guest on the LGM podcast is Stefan Link, a historian at Dartmouth, to discuss his recent book Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over.
This is the grave of Arkady Shevchenko. Born in 1930 in Horlivka, in what is today the eastern Ukraine (or at least until Putin finishes his conquest), Shevchenko grew up.
Watching footage of nuclear tests is, for me as it is for many people, absolutely gripping. It's utterly horrible of course. But there's also a devastating awful beauty of that much power with that much destruction happening at once. Thus, it's time to watch this...
In the 1980s, the CIA realized that the only way to get Reagan to pay attention to what they were saying was to make movies for him. So they did..
The New York Times decided to go all-in on redbaiting yesterday with a supposed exposé that Bernie Sanders was supporting Soviet propaganda when he visited the country in 1988, part.
There's a long debate about the nature of Soviet communism. Was it doomed from the start to be a horrible oppressive state? Was it Stalin? What happened? I'm reading Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism, about, well, everyday life during the 1930s. And I think I've settled...
On March 17, 1921, the Kronstadt Rebellion was crushed by Soviet military forces. This moment was not only a critical one in the consolidation of the Russian Revolution, but also.
I am soon returning to East Coast Exile, reality, and regular blogging. Until then, this. 1980's Soviet Estonian TV ad for minced chicken meat by filmmaker Harry Egipt. A vegetarian's.