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In March 1921 in Moscow, at a congress of his own party, a man announced to the delegates that it was once again possible to trade. That the peasant would henceforth…
Ask a bilingual child how their trip to their grandmother went. Most likely, that’s what happened. We went. Then we walked around. Then we ate. Then…
For the English-speaking reader, the Kremlin has long meant not a fortress, but power. Roughly speaking, it’s like the White House or Downing Street: the Kremlin said, they mean…
The morning of the fourteenth of December, 1825, St. Petersburg, frost. About eight hundred soldiers of the Moscow Regiment march onto Senate Square. The officers form them into ranks...
In Lev's hallway stands a wicker basket, once bought at IKEA for blankets, but serving a completely different purpose. Inside it lie...
There are two frames that deserve to be placed side by side. In the first one, there is a monkey from the 1936 film: round ears, round eyes, sweeping gestures,...
A teenager brings home a video found through a search for Joseph Stalin. A cheerful voiceover announces that the leader inherited a country with a wooden plow,…
At the end of March, the ice on Baikal holds a truck, while being so transparent that a person standing on it sees...
A history project happens in the life of every child growing up between two languages. It is usually brought home in the evening, when it is due tomorrow, and…
A forty-minute walk along a long avenue in any city of the former Soviet Union provides an almost complete overview of the twentieth century. Every few...
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