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 [...]
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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 [...]
Earlier this week the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library announced the expansion of Stalinka, its on-line gallery of pictures and artifacts depicting Josef Stalin.
The searchable collection currently contains over 500 images of the Soviet dictator in photographs, posters, painting, cartoons, sculpture, and the applied arts. Each image is accompanied by a (sometimes very) brief [...]
As I alluded in a post several weeks back, one of the reasons that things have been a bit slow here at DotA as of late is that I’ve been busy at work developing a new web site/blog.
I am happy to announce that last night the site went “live.”
It’s called The Russian Front. [...]
For eight days in late August 1909, the city of Reims, France played host to Le Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne one of the first and most successful air shows of the new age of flight. The Reims Air Show riveted European attention on the airplane, awakened the public to the reality of flight, [...]
Many thanks to Brett Holman at Airminded who recently (and unknowingly) alerted me to LibraryThing, an on-line service that makes cataloging one’s book collection a very simple and painless process.
Just set up a free account, start inputting authors or titles, and you’re on your way. The site draws upon the Library of Congress collection, [...]