Soviet Union
Witness History. The KGB's Whistleblower. Audio, 9 minutes
KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992
- AttributionBBC World Service
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Witness History. The Soviet Union's Fashion Revolutionary. Audio, 9 minutes
Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.
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Intrigue. The Ratline, The Ratline: 8. Nest of Spies. Audio, 31 minutes
A story of life, love and a curious death.
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Intrigue. The Ratline, The Ratline: 6. The Men Who Murdered Nazis. Audio, 22 minutes
A story of life, love and a curious death.
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The Reunion. The Murder of Georgi Markov. Audio, 45 minutes
Sue MacGregor and guests recall the umbrella murder of Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov.
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Sunday Feature. Tony Harrison's Prague Spring. Audio, 44 minutes
How one of Britain's best-known poets experienced the drama of the 1960s Prague Spring.
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Crossing Continents. The Belarus Tractor Factory. Audio, 28 minutes
How a Soviet era business model is still working in Minsk - and exporting worldwide.
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The Essay. Between the Essays, 5 of 5: Half Life. Audio, 15 minutes
Tadhg O'Sullivan captures the re-population by nature of the area around Chernobyl.
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Sunday Feature. Resurrecting Mayakovsky. Audio, 44 minutes
Ian Sansom looks at the life and legacy of Soviet poet and artist, Vladimir Mayakovsky.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 10 Eisenstein. Audio, 15 minutes
Silent movie accompanist Neil Brand reappraises Eisenstein's influential film October.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 9 Moisei Ginzburg. Audio, 15 minutes
Political historian Tariq Ali recalls a tour of Constructivist Moscow in the 1980s.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 8 The State Porcelain Factory. Audio, 15 minutes
Ceramicist Claire Curneen tells the strange story of the State Porcelain Factory.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 7 Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer Elaine Feinstein compares the impact of the Revolution on two great Russian poets.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 6 Mosolov. Audio, 15 minutes
Musicologist Tamsin Alexander considers the industrially inspired music of Mosolov.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 5 Tatlin. Audio, 15 minutes
Art historian Christina Lodder describes the influence of sculptor Vladimir Tatlin.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 4 Meyerhold. Audio, 15 minutes
Richard Eyre appraises the Revolution's impact on theatre director Meyerhold.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 2 John Reed, Eye-Witness. Audio, 15 minutes
Historian Helen Rappaport reappraises American eyewitness to the Revolution, John Reed.
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The Essay. Ten Artists that Shook the World, 1 Choices. Audio, 15 minutes
Writer Martin Sixsmith considers how the Russian Revolution affected choices for artists.
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Sunday Feature. Emigranti - 1917 Revisited. Audio, 44 minutes
How do Russia's latest cultural emigres feel about leaving their homeland?
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Russia in Five Babushka Dolls. Series 1, Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Audio, 15 minutes
Vanora Bennett profiles Stalin's wife, born in 1901 in the Tsarist Russian south.
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Reith Revisited. Series 1, Angela Stent on George Kennan. Audio, 14 minutes
A re-examination of George Kennan's 1957 Reith Lectures, 'Russia, the Atom and the West'.
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The Reunion. Solidarity. Audio, 45 minutes
Former leaders of Solidarity recall the bitter struggle for democracy in 1980s Poland.
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The Essay. Free Thinking 2017, Russia's Sacred Ruins. Audio, 15 minutes
Victoria Donovan explores the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.
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The Essay. Free Thinking 2017, Alexander the Great's Lost City. Audio, 15 minutes
The story of Alexander the Great's lost city, buried beneath Bagram air base, Afghanistan.
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