Perestroika

Top Secret: Investigative Journalism and True Crime During Perestroika

Sovershenno sekretno, the first privately owned periodical in Soviet Russia since 1917, showcased a combination of transparency and sensationalism that became a distinguishing feature of journalistic writing in the post-Soviet period.

The First Article on Prostitution in the Soviet Union

"The White Dance" by Evgeny Dodolev broke a major taboo of Soviet press, by doing a report on the existence of foreign-currency prostitutes in the USSR. Dodolev would then go on to be a part of the Vzgliad team, as well as the creator of 1990s "Novyi vzgliad"

"Moscovskii komsomolets," 19-21 November, 1986

Kommersant’ by Vladimir Kharchenko and Rada Ltd, 1991.

The Ukranian video game attempted to represent the rough transition to capitalism via a detailed, simulationist interface.