Anyone in Kiev who’s ever dreamed of standing in Vladimir Lenin’s shoes now has their chance, thanks to a Mexican artist.
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop is a singular and surprising exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Soviet jokes disappeared when the Soviet Union collapsed, but that brand of dark humor has made a comeback in Russia today.
The World's Alex Gallafent looks at a Russian movie, Hipsters, arriving in American theaters. It's American-style hipsters in 1950s Moscow. The film's director says there are some parallels with the current wave of anti-Putin protesters in Russia today.
For 50-some years, the Cold War dominated life in Russia, Europe and the United State. In the nearly two decades since it ended, though, the physical manifestations of those decades are rapidly disappearing. A museum in California is hoping to hang on to the past and make it real for the future.
We are looking for a museum of Cold War history that has a collection of everything from East German blueprints to Soviet artwork.
Is this place of exile really so much like a prison? Ian Frazier doesn't think so. For decades, Frazier's been visiting and loving Siberia, and joins us to talk about his tribute to that desolate wilderness, 'Travels in Siberia.'
Sergei Mikhalkov wrote the lyrics to the Soviet national anthem during World War II, but rewrote it decades later to better reflect the times.
In "Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State," Steven Heller describes how famous tyrannies used architecture and design for propaganda and control.