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The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

The Communist Party of Great Britain And The Red Menace 1920-1991

When the Iron Curtain fell, in 1991 The Communist Party of Great Britain called it ...
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The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

The Brilliant Avant-Garde Movie Posters of the Soviet Union

"It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." - Alexander Rodchenko, 1921 ...
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The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

The Soviet Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

"This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up..." ...
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Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photoprovocations by Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photography wasn’t given credence as a legitimate art form and even classic Soviet photography wasn’t included in museum exhibitions. In order to get their work seen, photographers started their own clubs, exchanging work with other clubs and organizing their own exhibitions and festivals. ...
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The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

The First Man To Walk In Space Reveals What Really Happened (1965)

'As air escaped from the [spacecraft’s air lock], the vacuum of space reached into it like a monster’s claw'. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began to worry... ...
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‘A City of Half-Crazy People’ – Photographs of Leningrad (St Petersburg) in 1961

‘A City of Half-Crazy People’ – Photographs of Leningrad (St Petersburg) in 1961

"This is a city of half-crazy people... there are few places where you'll find so many gloomy, harsh and strange influences on the soul of a man as in St Petersburg." (Fyodor Dostoevsky - 'Crime and Punishment'). ...
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After Chernobyl : The Nuclear Suicide Squad (1986)

After Chernobyl : The Nuclear Suicide Squad (1986)

In 1986 Professor Sir Frederick Warner created Volunteers for Ionising Radiation, a platoon of over-65s who would help in a British nuclear disaster ...
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Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

Igor Mukhin’s Photographs Capture the Underground Rock Scene in Moscow and Leningrad at the Tail End of the Soviet Union

"I felt that the time of ‘change’ had come, and I needed to go and shoot” - Igor Mukhin ...
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Stalin’s Rope Roads

Stalin’s Rope Roads

"People who had never been there, and who possibly never could go there, spoke of Georgia with a kind of longing and a great admiration. They spoke of Georgians as supermen, as great drinkers, great dancers, great musicians, great workers and lovers. And they spoke of the country in the Caucasus and around the Black Sea as a kind of second heaven" - John Steinbeck, A Russian Journal ...
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Girl At The May Day Parade – Lviv 1968

Girl At The May Day Parade – Lviv 1968

Who was the girl in this fantastic snapshot from the Soviet Union? ...
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61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

61 Sensational Soviet Space Posters

In the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet Union assured the great unwashed that ploughing fortunes into the space race was good for them ...
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Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story Of A Russian Boy’s Photos

Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story Of A Russian Boy’s Photos

I found an undeveloped film in an old Soviet camera, got the images developed and found 19 black & white photos of a boy and his first day at school. I decided to find him almost 30 years later... ...
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