Inside the claustrophobic confines of a shipping container, a group of Russians waits out another day of an Arctic storm. Anton bakes blini. Andrei watches the same horror movie again. Alexei tries to craft a toothpaste holder from an empty tin can. Lisa the dog, who finds company among the hundred …
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‘A man will only return to his birthplace in the countryside when he is dead. This is our reality.’
‘This disaster has been going on for decades. I want to protest against this as loudly as I can through photography.’
‘Bolshevism, like most millenarian movements, proved a one-generation phenomenon.’
Yuri Slezkine on Soviet history and the generational arc of revolution.
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