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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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Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky, creator of world-famous Cheburashka, dies aged 80

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Soviet writer Eduard Uspensky, who created the world-famous Cheburashka character, died in Moscow aged 80, his daughter Irina told TASS on Tuesday. Foto: Damaris Puñales-Alpizar   Uspensky was also the creator of many other stories that were very popular, like Three … Continue reading →

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Vivienda soviética: de Moscú a La Habana y Quilpué

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Fragmento del artículo de Ángelo Narváez, aparecido en la revista La Raza Cómica, de Chile. Para leer el artículo completo, pinchar aquí. La primera vez que se utilizó en Latinoamérica la técnica soviética de construcción de viviendas sociales por ensamble … Continue reading →

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They look different, but they are the same brand: Lada is coming back to Cuba

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Lada brand returns to Cuba Peter Sigal Automotive News Europe November 29, 2017 15:10 CET PARIS — AvtoVAZ said it would resume exports of its Lada cars to Cuba, starting with a shipment of 344 Vesta sedans and Largus crossovers … Continue reading →

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On the movie Sergio and Sergei, by Ernesto Daranas Serrano, and the complicated relationship between Cuba and the former Soviet Union (by Diana Sánchez)

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

    As the Soviet Union crumbles in 1991, an amateur radio operator in Cuba makes unexpected contact with stranded cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as he observes the dissolution of his nation from orbit, in Cuban director Ernesto Daranas Serrano’s comedic … Continue reading →

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Lengua rusa en Cuba

Posted on November 4, 2016 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Desde el 31 de octubre y hasta el 3 de noviembre, Cuba celebró una jornada dedicada a la lengua rusa en la isla. En la Universidad de Guantánamo, sede de las celebraciones, tuvieron lugar conferencias, presentaciones, concursos infantiles… En este … Continue reading →

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The Russians in Cuba

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Here you have an article published by Ariel Glaria Enriquez, in Havana Times (Oct. 29, 2016), about the Russian presence in Cuban daily life. The 1962 Missile Crisis, which put the world on the brink of a nuclear war, was the … Continue reading →

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España-Rusia-Cuba: los caminos de una ‘niña de la guerra’. Sobre Catalina Sin Chesa.

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Natasha Vázquez entrevista a Catalina Sin Chesa para Sputnik: La historia comienza un poco antes en Huesca, Aragón (España), hacia el final de la Guerra Civil Española, cuando su padre, Ismael, es perseguido por su labor en el Gobierno republicano … Continue reading →

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Moscú no cabe en una maleta

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Luz Escobar escribe para 14yMedio: Visitar Moscú fue por décadas el sueño dorado de muchos cubanos, pero solo los más confiables podían disfrutar de una estancia en la Unión Soviética. De esos viajes a la “madrastra patria” regresaban con las … Continue reading →

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El futuro ya llegó: inscripciones del archivo post- soviético en Cuba

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Soviet Cuba: Identities in Transition

Aquí les dejó con la introducción de Irina Garbatzky al dossier recién publicado en Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín (No. 1. Vol. 2. Agosto de 2016). Para leer el resto de los trabajos, … Continue reading →

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