Film
Roads to Golgotha: why Larisa Shepitko’s war-haunted films still resonate today (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Caught by the night: the gothic visions of Juraj Herz (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Socialist sci-fi: how Soviet cinema went extra-terrestrial (essay, Klassiki Journal)
From Cranes to Cuba: how Kalatozov and Urusevsky reinvented Soviet cinema (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Ten years on, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan remains a landmark for modern Russian film (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Brief encounters: Otar Iosseliani and the subversive art of the short film (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Tarkovsky in exile: how the Soviet Union’s foremost auteur lost his homeland (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Soviet redux: personal and political collide in two recreations of the Stalinist past (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Invisible republic: capturing Artsakh on film, from frozen conflict to mass emigration (essay, Klassiki Journal)
“The interesting stories are yet to come”: how Kosovo’s female directors went global (report, Klassiki Journal)
Faith in images: the post-war visions of Miklós Jancsó and István Szőts (essay, Klassiki Journal)
Power, Poussin and Penises: Why Does Fassbinder Put Midas And Bacchus on Film? (column, Elephant)
Mobsters and the Mona Lisa: What Does Da Vinci’s Painting Add to a 1960s Yakuza Film? (column, Elephant)
Eldar Shengelaia at 90: personal reflections on a Georgian film icon (round table, Klassiki Journal)
The Sad Comedies of Soviet Socialism (essay, Tribune)
“All you need is your camera”: can documentary film bring change to Central Asia? (report, The Calvert Journal)
Why we shouldn’t be celebrating the release of DAU, the troubling epic 14 years in the making (opinion, The Calvert Journal)
Visual culture
Eisenstein on paper: explore the remarkable, unknown art of a cinematic maestro (essay, The Calvert Journal)
The Memeification of Rodchenko’s Iconic Soviet Portrait (opinion, Elephant)
The Jewish Revolution: how Soviet Jews pursued artistic modernity and political freedom after 1917 (review, The Calvert Journal)
Dmitri Prigov: how the Soviet Union produced a genre-defying artistic mystic (essay, The Calvert Journal)
Architecture
Inside Warsaw’s fixation on the Palace of Culture and Science, the socialist skyscraper in a capitalist city (report, The Calvert Journal)
In Budapest’s offbeat 8th district, gentrification and political pressure go hand in hand (report, The Calvert Journal)
Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic? (report, The Calvert Journal)
Tbilisi Architecture Biennale: can informal architecture save the city? (report, The Calvert Journal)
Brand Constructivism: inside the fight to save Yekaterinburg’s radical architectural heritage (report, The Calvert Journal)
City of disappearances: how do you conserve buildings in a Moscow turning its back on the past? (report, The Calvert Journal)
Heaven and earth: the DIY architects behind Poland’s amazing wave of hand-built churches (report, The Calvert Journal)
Soviet history & culture
Soviet Factography: the factory of facts (review, Times Literary Supplement)
The Soviet Textile Artist Who Wove Together Technology and the Avant-Garde (essay, Elephant)
Fabric Cybernetics (essay, Tribune)
The Sad Comedies of Soviet Socialism (essay, Tribune)
The Memeification of Rodchenko’s Iconic Soviet Portrait (opinion, Elephant)
Eisenstein on paper: explore the remarkable, unknown art of a cinematic maestro (essay, The Calvert Journal)
The Jewish Revolution: how Soviet Jews pursued artistic modernity and political freedom after 1917 (review, The Calvert Journal)
Dmitri Prigov: how the Soviet Union produced a genre-defying artistic mystic (essay, The Calvert Journal)
Bone music: how bootleggers used X-rays to bring rock and roll to the USSR (report, The Calvert Journal)
Body language: the many afterlives of Lenin, from art object to science experiment (essay, The Calvert Journal)
Travel
Letter from Bishkek: Soviet utopia meets postmodern charm in Bishkek’s garden city capital (report, The Calvert Journal)
Letter from Astana: searching for tradition in Kazakhstan’s postmodern capital (report, The Calvert Journal)