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The collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1991 shocked the world. And now 25 years later, the demise of the USSR proved to have negative repercussions throughout the world.
teleSUR reflects on the legacy of the world's first communist state, the contributions it made to social struggles around the globe, and how it helped shape contemporary political thought.
Poll: Most Russians Prefer Return of Soviet Union and Socialism
Over 50 percent of Russian citizens believe the collapse of the Soviet Union was bad and could have been avoided. READ MORE
Life After the USSR: Buying the Dream, Living the Nightmare
Despite the neoliberal talking points about “freedom,” “democracy,” and “peace,” the reality of life in post-Soviet Eastern Europe is not at all what was promised. Instead Western-style capitalism (neoliberalism) has imposed on the people of Eastern Europe a new kind of hardship in the years since the Soviet Union collapsed. READ MORE
Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem’s longtime representative in Congress would later say: “No group has demonstrated a greater commitment to the Black Community than the Communist Party.” READ MORE
Rear Window: Cinema of the Soviet Union
Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London, examines the use of political propaganda in early Russian films and the appropriation of these techniques in both modern documentary making and the cinema of Latin America.
Socialist Futurism
Through art, architecture and film, Soviets explored ambitious and grandiose visions for the future of the Soviet state. In this utopian new order, buildings rose majestically toward the sky, inequality was eradicated and not even outer planets were beyond reach. READ MORE
Soviet Posters Against Racism and War
In order to advance toward the goal of world revolution, agitational propaganda, or agitprop was deployed as a means of conveying Marxist theory to the workers and oppressed of the world. Entire departments and agencies produced posters, cinema, poetry, music and literature for this purpose, and life in the socialist state was permeated with the striking motifs of agitprop artwork. teleSUR takes a look at the iconic political posters of visionary Soviet artist and propagandist, Viktor B. Koretsky. READ MORE
Sputnik Marked the Beginning of Space Research
The Russians spearheaded the start of a new era characterized by the launch of satellites that revolutionized communications and other sectors. READ MORE
The Real Story Behind the Defeat of the Nazis
The Soviet Union resisted, fought back and eventually won the war, at a gigantic human and material cost with up to 27 million deaths. READ MORE
Hordes of people protest in favor of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the Dvortsovaya Plaza in St Petersburg after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt. | Photo EFE
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The audience of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party applaud a speech by General-Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, 1976. | Photo EFE
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Cuban President Fidel Castro in Moscow 1981 for the "50th anniversary of the Soviet Union" | Photo EFE
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Communists in Moscow commemorate 57 years since the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. | Photo EFE
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan speaks with Secretary-General of the Communist Party Mikhail Gorbachev during nuclear non-proliferation talks in Switzerland, 1985. | Photo EFE
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