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    May 26, 2019       1990s , ads , fashion & clothing , life & culture , people , Russia & Soviet Union     The dissolution of the USSR left Russia ripe for visual reinterpretation. With the Cold War over we wanted to see who these freshly freed former Communists were. These pictures depicting Russia not as the complex place it is, but in comparison to our own domestic self image. The 1990 opening of Moscow’s first McDonald’s was an easy symbol for Western media to glom onto, as were other iterations of a nascent consumer culture “emerging” after decades of Soviet dormancy. Subjects finally had the choice between Snickers and blue jeans, pizza or cocktails. The “New Russians” phenomenon further reinforced an image of a class of nouveau riche embracing their innate capitalist tendencies. Even representations of diverse experience became a means for underlining the split between socialism and capitalism, and...

    January 04, 2014       1980s , life & culture , people , Russia & Soviet Union     A collection of color photographs of daily life in USSR in 1980. You might also like:

    January 07, 2017       1980s , life & culture , people , Russia & Soviet Union , street     The '80s weren't a great time for those living in the USSR, although those living in Moscow had it better than most. Here's a look at everyday life of the Soviets in the late 1980s. These amazing photographs were taken by Chris Niedenthal in 1984 through 1989. Moscow market, 1989 A Moscow man, 1988 Bakery in Moscow, 1989 Baku, Azerbaijan, 1989 Book stall in Moscow, 1989 'Don't look!', Arbat, Moscow, 1989 Drying off after swimming lessons, Moscow, 1989 Elections in Riga, Latvia, 1989 'Glasnost' on the Arbat, 1989 Group baptism in a Russian Orthodox church, Moscow, 1989 Hockey played in a Moscow housing estate, 1984 Lenin, 1988 Moscow apartament, 1989 Moscow bride and groom, after the wedding in Moscow, 1984 Moscow family, 1989 Moscow girl, 1988 ...