Soviet Union
The Documentary Podcast. The Black Book. Audio, 50 minutes
Why was the Black Book, a chronicle of the Nazi extermination of Soviet Jews banned?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
On This Day. 25 Dec 1991: Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union splits. Audio, 3 minutes
The Soviet Union passes into history as its last leader steps down.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain. Audio, 9 minutes
Transmitting independent broadcasts through the Iron Curtain between 1947 and 1991
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. Soviet fashionista. Audio, 9 minutes
Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to design high fashion pieces in the Soviet Union
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Shostakovich and the Battle for Babi Yar. Audio, 44 minutes
The story of Shostakovich's Symphony No 13 and the trailblazing poem which inspired it.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted30 October 2022
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- Posted27 October 2022
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone. Series 1, Part Two - 1989 to 1991. Video, 59 minutes
No potatoes in Moscow. The Soviet plan runs out of control. But McDonald’s opens.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone. Series 1, Part One - 1985 to 1989. Video, 58 minutes
Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But the oligarchs start to loot the system.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
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- Posted7 October 2022
HARDtalk. Boris Grebenshchikov: Culture and protest in Russia. Audio, 23 minutes
Zeinab Badawi speaks to a Russian rock musician exiled in London
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted3 September 2022
Witness History. Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya. Audio, 9 minutes
The imprisonment and release of dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted1 September 2022
Witness History. Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika. Audio, 9 minutes
Reform in the Soviet Union, known as Perestroika, was launched in 1987
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted31 August 2022
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- Posted30 August 2022
