soviet design Watch this 1983 TV commercial for a craptastic Soviet Walkman knock-off Mark Frauenfelder
movies On this day in 1943, the Office of War Information won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Elías Villoro
russia If you want to understand Putin, learn about Alexander Dugin, the fascist Russian charlatan beloved by the U.S.'s far-right Mark Frauenfelder
retro gaming In 1974 I played the Lunar Lander game on a pocket calculator for hours on end Mark Frauenfelder
books New rare book catalogue features a Soviet Space Race picture book with backyard-built rocket Rebecca Romney
Audio When people used to press bootleg recordings onto X-Rays to pass around Soviet Russia Thom Dunn
museums Auction: Lipstick gun, poison-tipped umbrella, hotel room "bug," and other KGB spy gear David Pescovitz