A Complete History of the Soviet Union, Arranged to the Melody of Tetris
Amazing music video that uses the metaphor of Tetris to tell the history of Russia and the Soviet Union
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What if the Romanovs had been restored?
Martin Gilbert, writing in the Times, imagines an entirely different end to the First World War: Imagine: in October 1918, Lloyd Georges Cabinet is planning for a prolonged struggle in 1919. Haigs solution promises...
Hammer and sickle over the Reichstag, 1945
On 30 April 1945, Mikhail Petrovich Minin scrambled to the top of the ruined Reichstag to raise the Soviet flag. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a photographer with him…
Khalkhin-Gol: The forgotten battle that shaped WW2
In August 1939, just weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, the Soviet Union and Japan fought the largest tank battle the world had ever seen
Future History – The decline and fall of Russia
Every now and then, someone pops up and says that, for Russia the end is nigh: the oil boom is unsustainable, the population is falling, the Chinese are coming, the vodka will run out...
The Russians invented blogging
Oh, come on! Don’t tell me you thought blogging was a modern phenomenon. How foolish can you be? A Russian thought up the concept of blogging way back in 1837. Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, a...
Solider Nixon
What happens when you try to buy Russian literature in small town Queensland? So I asked the old half-deaf biddy in the second hand bookshop if she had any books by Solzhenitsyn. “Soldier Nixon,...
A 1960s exchange student in Moscow
David McDuff has just posted a beautifully written eleven part series series about his experiences as a student of Moscow State University in the 1960s. It’s frightening, at times, how closely his observations of...
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