When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Eastern Bloc was thrown into a whirlwind of political upheaval, economic transformation, and shifting alliances. In this episode, we explore how former ...
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was, at least from a distance, a moment of euphoria. But there’s little joy in the lives of the young Russians we meet in “Mother Russia,” a dark, frequently ...
The Soviet Union had brought up its citizens as believers in scientific atheism, scornful of the tradition-based ...