The Temple in Salina will take a look back in time for one night this week as it shows a 1920s-era silent film Friday. Released just two years after construction was completed on the historic Masonic ...
This documentary traces the collapse of stability in Tajikistan as the Soviet Union unraveled. Long-standing regional ...
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Was the Soviet Union really an empire?

This episode examines whether the Soviet Union fits the political definition of an empire. It analyzes the USSR as a multiethnic, centralized state exercising authority over diverse nationalities. The ...
A rare lymphoma diagnosis meant Giorgi Gagoshidze had to abandon a film project on the economic factors behind the USSR’s collapse – until he found new meaning in medical terminology ...
“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...
For this retrospective, we made a selection of feature films by Georgian director Levan Tutberidze, and documentaries representing works by ...
It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked silent masterpiece is being reassessed for just this reason. Subscribe to our ...
Russian opposition media outlet Meduza has released a documentary about the first Soviet sexologist, sociologist, psychologist, and doctor of philosophical sciences Igor Kon on Meduza’s YouTube ...
On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...