This past month, Duke University Libraries unveiled a new digital collection documenting daily life in the early Soviet Union. Titled, “Americans in the Land of Lenin,” the photographic archive contains 750 images drawn from the personal papers of two Americans who found themselves in the USSR during the two decades that followed October 1917.
Robert L. [...]

[While in Europe in late November and early December, my friend and colleague Nathan Wood began research on his next project, a book-length study that will explore the introduction of bicycles, automobiles, and airplanes in the lands of East Central Europe (specifically Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland). Tentatively titled, "East Central Europe in the Age of [...]

Although the majority of my posts on Soviet aviation culture have focused on visual and literary productions such as posters, films, poems, and short stories, arguably the best known and most popular composition (at least for Russians) is “Ever Higher” (”Все выше”) — an aviation-inspired tune that appeared several years before the young Bolshevik [...]

A few days ago I received a message from a reader (Jim Davis) who wanted to know if I might be able to provide information regarding a short newsreel that he had come across:

I have a short film clip … silent … black and white … it shows a large single-engined monoplane and biplane and [...]

A note appearing this afternoon on the SEELANGS listserv alerts subscribers to a new website dedicated to Soviet material culture.
The site, called Made in the USSR: Treasures from the Soviet Atlantis, contains over 500 images and photos of items produced in the Soviet Union.
It’s a rather eclectic collection that includes everything from journals and posters [...]

The second installment of the monthly blog run-down Military History Carnival has turned up a recent and relevant aviation-related post from the collaborative East Asian history blog Frog in a Well. In it, Alan Baumler ponders the question, “How air-minded was China?” and offers some background information concerning the role of airplanes and air power [...]

[Note: On 4/2/07 I removed the Cyrillic characters "Аэро-стихи" from the title above after discovering that they made it impossible to locate or link to the text of the post using the built-in site search engine. You should now have access to the translation and original text.]
From the very beginning of their Campaign to [...]