Tag Archives: USSR

Ephemera as art and history

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Mike

Here’s a recent acquisition for my collection of interesting ephemera. I scored it from an online seller and although I didn’t know much about it when I purchased the item, I have learned a bit through some research. On the … Continue reading →

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Nikolai Timkov’s “Leningrad in the Days of the Great Patriotic War”

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Mike

I recently acquired an unusual piece of ephemera for my collection of Soviet era documents, art and memorabilia. I purchased the item online from a seller in Russia. It was something of an accidental purchase, as I’d mistakenly thought that … Continue reading →

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Solzhenitsyn…reconsidered

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Mike

In most literary and academic circles—excepting those of Soviet-era institutions in the USSR and Eastern bloc countries— it is anathema to level even the slightest criticism against the work of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn. But well-reasoned evaluation of the author’s … Continue reading →

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Armageddon Theater: The Day After

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Mike

Originally written for Primary Ignition’s “Mayan Apocalypse Survival Guide,” December 21, 2012. By the 1980s, children of the Cold War knew that those “duck and cover” drills were meaningless. We were living in the era of ICBMs and the doctrine … Continue reading →

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