Shooting for the red stars: How the space race sent Soviet art to the cosmos
“Sorry Apollo!”
Soviet
Communism’s unsung role in a defining period for British film censorship
A private society hosted banned films from the Soviet Union.
The illegal trips to see Kazakhstan’s hidden space rockets
What is hiding in Central Kazakhstan and why are people breaking into a restricted cosmodrome to see it?
Inside the Corner House: Latvia’s haunting former-KGB base
On the corner of two quiet streets in Riga…
Welcome to Stalin World, Lithuania’s provocative museum park
Grūtas Park is unlike any other attraction you’ve ever seen.
The death of the Aral Sea: The awful ironies of the latest dark tourism expedition
The first major climate change disaster.
The beauty and creative defiance of Soviet bus stops
Beacons of creativity amid a totalitarian regime.
The crucial importance of Sergei Eisenstein’s ‘Battleship Potemkin’
Montage pioneer, revolutionary theorist.
Sergei Eisenstein: The man who pioneered montage
Sergei Eisenstein’s politically-charged editing techniques changed cinema.