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2011-09-23
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Resources
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2011-12-02
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Tourism
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2010-07-30
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2011-09-23
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Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘USSR’
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GULAGs in Kazakhstan
In the vein of yesterday’s post, here’s at least a hasty link to an article about a new book, The Gulag’s Foundation In Kazakhstan Death and Redemption: The Gulag and the Shaping of Soviet Society by Steven A. Barnes of George Mason University (where, perhaps coincidentally, it seems like an awfully large number of Bolashak […]
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The Transition for Ordinary People
Someone stole my idea. A documentary is coming out called My Perestroika, which follows five Russians who lived through the transition from socialism to capitalism. It seems like a really interesting film. I’m always interested to hear stories about what transition was like, not in terms of economic statistics but in personal stories. And also […]
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Love in the USSR
Great post by a Peace Corps Volunteer about how her host grandmother and grandfather fell in love. In case you wondered about love and romance among the Soviets.
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Happy Victory Day
Today is the 65th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II or the Great Patriotic War. Victory in Europe Day is celebrated on the 8th of May, but the former Soviet countries celebrate Victory Day on the 9th of May. Apparently Stalin insisted that because the Soviet Union had contributed more […]
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How to Write About Kazakhstan
I am taking up a gauntlet here in response to a great post on Registan.net about How to Write About Afghanistan. First, mention Borat. If the article is about some problem or something that seems funny then refer to Kazakhstan as “Boratland”, “the home of Borat”, or “Boratistan”. Otherwise, if the article is about say […]
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RVS is Boring
According to Adil Nurmankov, the retro style restaurant that featured nostalgic Soviet chic, RVS, is now just a restaurant [RUS]. Once a magnet for tourists featuring Lenin’s portrait on the walls and quotes from Soviet documents, apparently now: in the halls, they have the same tables, but without the revolutionary menu. However, they do have […]
