Soviet Visuals
@sovietvisuals
Visuals from behind the Iron Curtain. Soviet (and bits of pre/post-Soviet) photography, architecture & design. USSR propaganda art. Curated by @variainayurt
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Russia’s MFA claims the Baltic economies have “struggled” since leaving the USSR. Reality check: under Soviet rule we lacked even the basics. Toilet paper? We used newspapers, or this rough paper sold as “toilet paper” (pictured). Soft toilet paper on rolls was a rare luxury—when…
Dmitry Shostakovich (Шостакович) was a Soviet Russian composer whose symphonies and quartets are among the greatest examples of these classic forms from the 20th century. SHOSTAKOVICH Unisex Shirt stratonaut.shop/products/shost…
Bus stop in Buryatia. Photo by Igor Palmin, USSR, 1980.
American pianist Van Cliburn on tour in the USSR. Tbilisi. Georgian SSR, 1960.
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China's interest in aircraft carriers started decades ago. In 2000, China bought the Soviet carrier Kiev, turning it into a theme park in Tianjin that opened in 2006. I was one of the visitors nearly 20 years ago.
“The Nutcracker” (1973), Boris Stepantsev’s surreal Soviet take on Hoffmann’s tale and Tchaikovsky’s ballet. Dreamlike, eerie, and unlike any Nutcracker you’ve seen.
An honest artist must become an abstractionist in order to survive in the capitalist world. Excerpt from the Soviet cartoon "A Story of an Artist", 1962
"The City of Grozny". Excerpt from 1978 Soviet TV film.
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What a photo. Moscow, 1924. Tamiji Naito, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Eisenstein, Olga Tretyakova, Lilya Brik, Vladimir Mayakovsky, diplomat Arseny Voznesensky, and Naito’s translator.
The fact that you could take nearly any piece of Soviet brutalist architecture and be like "yeah you could put that in Star Wars"