Friday A/V Club: When Satire, Slapstick, and Surrealism Collide
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
The long-suppressed Soviet satire My Grandmother, plus a tribute to Bob Hoskins.
No, not some crazy Manchurian Candidate scenario
Sixty years after the Army-McCarthy hearings, we should reexamine some of our accumulated lore about the period.
A weird pop relic from the end of the Soviet era
An event at NYC's Museum of Sex
For all the brutal revelations, the romanticized view of communism as a failed but noble venture has yet to get a stake through the heart.
With great foreign intervention comes flawed moral reasoning.
For Bayard Rustin, human rights activism was never about solidarity with his own group but about freedom, justice and dignity for all
New elections could give country's Communist Party some power
A Soviet-born American tours the Hermit Kingdom and finds humanity in a most inhumane place.
Approaching Godwin's law territory
Making commercials in the Soviet Union.
Xi Jinping needs the People's Liberation Army as a domestic political tool
The U.S. government has been tireless in pursuing a policy that does not look better with time
White House clearance or no, Havana's a weird place to vacation.
Even while saying "No. No. No," the famous Euro-skeptic helped the continent say yes to much-needed reforms.
Memory of dictator still positive in Russia and the west
One of our most controversial jurists talks about free speech, cell phones, and how bubble gum made him a capitalist.
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