soviet union Archives

A Symphony in Steel: Vera Mukhina, from the Paris Salon to the Stakhanovite Movement

March 21, 2021

Patricia Manos introduces us to one of Russia's most famous 20th-century artists. A giant among giants, meet Vera Mukhina.

“An Intensely Rich Illustration of the Post-Stalinist Soviet Union”: Dear Comrades – film review

March 12, 2021

Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest feature film, Dear Comrades begins in June 1962 with a simple premise: the workers of Novochercassk are protesting and the local government is struggling to [...]

Revolutionary Ideals in Fiction: a review of Alexandra Kollontai’s Love of Worker Bees

February 17, 2021

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]