Utopia's Discontents by Faith Hillis Soviet history and deportees

and deportees

novelistic memoir of a life lived on the fast-unfurling frontiers of Russian history

"Aeroflot – Fly Soviet" uses beautiful graphic ephemera to illustrate a parallel aviation universe that existed for 70 years

one of the great Russian cartoonists of the 1970s and 80s

These factors combined to undermine popular support for Soviet power and confidence in the Communist project

Utopia's Discontents by Faith Hillis Soviet history and deporteesIn April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian colonies" large and politically active communities of emigres in London, Paris, and Geneva, among other cities. Thousands of fellow exiles who followed Lenin on his eastward trek in 1917 were in a similar