Monthly Archives: March 2019

PHOTO EXHIBITION ABOUT SIEGE OF LENINGRAD OPENED IN CUBA

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

(Information from Russkiy Mir Foundation) An exhibition of photographs telling about the siege of Leningrad started it work in Cienfuegos, Cuba, the website of Rossotrudnichestvo reports. The Museum of Defence and Siege of Leningrad prepared the exhibition. Its opening was … Continue reading →

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Carta a Yuri Gagarin, de Ramón Fernández-Larrea

Posted on March 17, 2019 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

(Publicada en Cuba Encuentro, 14 de enero de 2002). Ingrávido y cosmopolita Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin: Menos mal que todavía te recuerdo vestidito de blanco, junto a una cosa grande, verde, barbuda, desaliñada y con boina, saludando con cara de ruso … Continue reading →

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A propósito de Soy Cuba y las co-producciones cubano-soviético-rusas

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

SOY CUBA, OCÉANO Y LISANKA: DE LO ALEGÓRICO A LO COTIDIANO. TRANSFORMACIONES EN LAS COPRODUCCIONES CUBANO-SOVIÉTICO-RUSAS     Por motivos diferentes, entre los cuales se repiten las carencias económicas y técnicas (aunque no son los únicos), y con resultados no … Continue reading →

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I AM CUBA, RESTORED AND REIMAGINED

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

By Maggie Sivit for Hyperallergic (Post and image from Repeating Islands)   When Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov was commissioned to make a film about the Cuban Revolution, he set out to make a Battleship Potemkin for the Cuban people. The film he made instead, I … Continue reading →

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