In the USSR, culture was only in Baltic States — a new portion of senility from Vaikule

EADaily, October 12th, 2026. Russia did not bring any culture to Latvia during the Soviet period. This was stated by the once ...
Communist Party of Australia

120th anniversary of Shostakovich’s contribution to Soviet culture

This year marks the 120th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich’s birth on 25 September 1906 in St Petersburg (later Leningrad). He made an enormous contribution to the Soviet Union, as his life spanned ...
Foreign Affairs

Two Books on Print Culture in the Soviet Union

Article link: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/two-books-print-culture-soviet-unionhttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/two-books-print-culture-soviet-union ...
Time

Books: Soviet Culture

VOICES OF OCTOBER—Art and Literature in Soviet Russia—Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick—Vanguard ($4). A glance at the bibliography of 67 books appended to this volume will indicate how ...
Brandeis University

The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines

In an environment where Judaism had been all but destroyed, and a public Jewish presence routinely delegitimized, reading provided many Soviet Jews with an entry to communal memory and identity. The ...