A new documentary “The Other Chelsea” tells the tale of a town in eastern Ukraine where the local soccer club won the Europa League tournament a few years back.
A year after George Orwell published his classic novel, “Animal Farm”, it became a hit with an unexpected group — Ukrainian refugees from the Soviet Union. They understood Orwell’s allegorical novel about the Soviet Union in a way that others did not.
The Soviet jokes disappeared when the Soviet Union collapsed, but that brand of dark humor has made a comeback in Russia today.
Host of a Russian history program says his series, titled Kto my? (Who Are We?), is about Russians understanding themselves.
After the collapse of the USSR, Russians and other ex-Soviets had to learn to face a new culture – a money culture. For many, that was a huge shock.
The Soviet Union dissolved 20 years ago this Sunday. More than half of all Russians now regret that demise, according to a recent poll. Brigid McCarthy visited a restaurant in Moscow that lets nostalgic customers pretend they’re back in the USSR.
Twenty years ago on Christmas Day, the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Brigid McCarthy takes a look back at why the USSR came crashing down.
The Kommunalka was a Soviet experiment in communal living. Entire families were forced to live in a single room, nevertheless some have surprisingly fond memories of the experience.
Twenty years ago, residents of Moscow awoke to the sound of tanks in the streets. There was a coup in the USSR.
Many Russians would rather forget the work camps of the Soviet past but a 91-year-old Gulag survivor keeps in trying to remind them. He runs the Gulag Museum in Moscow.
There are many Russians who say a critical factor in the demise of the USSR was the power struggle that broke out between Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
Twenty years ago on Friday, there was a coup aimed at bringing down Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Sergei Zhuk, an author and rock fan, says Rock and Roll helped bring down the Soviet Union. He writes how this forbidden music slipped into his hometown in Ukraine. His book is called “Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, l960-l985.” Brigid McCarthy spoke to Zhuk and brings us this report. Download MP3
