Soviet Union
Witness History. The Moscow State Circus. Audio, 9 minutes
The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted28 January 2021
Witness History. Estonia's singing revolution. Audio, 9 minutes
Rock star Tõnis Mägi describes how Estonia sang its way out of the Soviet Union.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted13 January 2021
The Essay. Secret Admirers, Elizabeth Alker on Sofia Gubaidulina. Audio, 14 minutes
Radio 3 presenter Elizabeth Alker celebrates the Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The last of the Kazakh herders. Audio, 9 minutes
Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted26 July 2020
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- Posted22 July 2020
The Essay. New Generation Thinkers 2020, Pogroms and Prejudice. Audio, 14 minutes
Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism, from Russian attacks to the present day.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
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- Posted18 June 2020
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- Posted9 May 2020
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- Posted8 May 2020
Witness History. The Soviet occupation of Berlin. Audio, 9 minutes
After Germany's surrender to Allied forces in May 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The battle for Berlin. Audio, 9 minutes
Eyewitness accounts of the final battle for the capital of Nazi Germany in 1945
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- AttributionNews from Elsewhere
- Posted4 May 2020
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- Posted3 May 2020
Witness History. Battling Soviet psychiatric punishment. Audio, 9 minutes
One man's stand against the psychiatric abuse of political dissidents in the Soviet Union
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
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- Posted21 February 2020
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- Posted10 February 2020
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- Posted4 February 2020
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- Posted3 February 2020
Witness History. Storming the Stasi HQ. Audio, 9 minutes
After the fall of the Berlin Wall East German citizens stormed the secret police HQ
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Beneath the Night, Touching the Night. Audio, 14 minutes
Can we have a better future among the stars? Dr Stuart Clark investigates.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
