Links

Worker in Soviet textile factory, 1970s

LOGIC

Russian Virtual Computer Museum

Slava Gerovich’s ‘InterNyet’

SCIENCE FICTION

A & B Strugatsky, Hard to be a God (Amazon)

A & B Strugatsky, Monday Begins on Saturday (Abebooks.com)

A & B Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic (Amazon)

The USSR in non-Soviet SF: Ken Macleod’s The Restoration Game, Liz Williams’ Nine Layers of Sky

Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars

SIBERIA

Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Google satellite map of Akademgorodok and the Ob Sea

SOVIET JOKES

Seth Benedict Graham, ‘Cultural Analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot’

FAIRYTALES

Frank J Miller, Folklore for Stalin (Google Books)

The Russian Fairy Tales of Aleksandr Afanasiev (Amazon)

Illustrated essay on Russian tales, by Helen Pilinovsky: Part One, Part Two

Excerpts from Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folk Tale (1928)

GALICH

Alexander Galich, Songs & Poems trans. Gerald Stanton Smith (Google Books)

Alexander Galich, Dress Rehearsal (Amazon)

Galich in Maxim Shrayer, ed., An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature (Google Books)

The Alexander Galich Club (Russian)

Galich page at ‘Bard song’ site (Russian)

Streamable MP3s of some Galich songs (Russian)

KANTOROVICH

Kantorovich’s Nobel Prize autobiography

Preface and Contents (in English) to Chelovek i Uchenii, ‘Man and Scientist’

English language description of other materials on Soviet cybernetics

The mathematical legacy: S S Kutateladze, ‘The Path and Space of Kantorovich’ (English)

Cosma Shalizi on the computational feasibility of optimal planning is here; his follow-up is here. 

THE GOOD LIFE

Soviet Champagne: Jukka Gronow, Caviar with Champagne (Google Books)

Socialist fashion: Djurdja Bartlett, Fashion East (MIT Press)

Soviet cars: autosoviet.com

Late Soviet arcade games

PICTURES

RIA Novosti Photo Library

Flickr set of Intourist luggage labels

Soviet life in the Fifties

Soviet life in the Sixties