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A music producer found an old record. It opened up a world of Soviet-era disco
SOHONIE: So in the early '90s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the record plant in Tashkent - in fact, all the record plants across the Soviet Union shut down. And with the collapse ...
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Amid Soviet Central Asia's boogie nights, the rhythms of a region's future
A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends ...
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Ida Nudel, for years the face of Jewish persecution in the Soviet Union, dies at 90
(JTA) — Ida Nudel, the Russian Jewish refusenik whose 16-year effort to leave the Soviet Union moved figures as diverse as Republican Secretary of State George Schultz and activist actress Jane ...
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Boris Spassky, Soviet chess champion who lost to Bobby Fischer, dies at 88
At the time of their famous match, the Soviet Union had compiled an unbroken streak of world chess championships that stretched back decades. After his loss, Spassky went home to a cold reception ...