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Posts tagged as “Soviet Union”

My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan

By Ben Dalton on January 29, 2017

Biography, Drama, History, 110 min In Ukrainian with English subtitles. Q&A with the film director Olena Demyanenko to follow. Synopsis: 1917, Crimea. A blind woman Fanny Kaplan (Kateryna Molchanova) is pardoned after serving ten years for terrorism at a hard labour camp and goes to a rest home in Yevpatoria. There, Fanny meets a doctor Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov (Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi).…

Empire in the Album: Soviet Travel Photography and Generational Memories of Socialism Today

By Ben Dalton on January 28, 2017

Please join us for a talk with Olga Shevchenko, Professor of Sociology at Williams College. This ‘show-and-tell” talk examines the ideological messages embedded in vernacular photographs preserved in private archived of former Soviet citizens. More specifically, it will focus on vernacular photography as a micro-technology of power, one that translates into everyday terms and naturalizes for subsequent generations such profoundly ideological…