Events: Glasnost
Play by Mikhail Shatrov that opened at the Lenin Komsomol Theather in Moscow, Feb. 1986
A clip from one of many Perestroika-era televised conversations between American and Soviet "regular people," in which they find common ground with the help of long-time Soviet propagandist and future star of liberal post-Soviet TV, Vladimir Pozner
Gorbachev’s Speech before a Gathering of State Media Leaders, March 14, 1986
Cover of the first issue of SpidInfo depicting an anxious nude couple turned away from each other in bed.
Still from Dolls"/"Kukly", 1994-2002, an influential political satire showing several politicians as puppets.