Russia: does It believe in anything? | LSE Festival
How might understanding this recent traumatic history help us understand the present, and future, of Russia and its political system?
How might understanding this recent traumatic history help us understand the present, and future, of Russia and its political system?
Saturday 17 June 2023 | 1 hour 7 minutes 47 seconds
Adam Curtis’s BAFTA-nominated BBC series, Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone, documents what it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy, based on preserved and digitised footage from BBC archives and forgotten or never shown scenes from Soviet life and life in post-Soviet states.
Adam Curtis and Traumazone producer Grigor Atanesian, in conversation with Professor Vladislav Zubok and Professor Tomila Lankina, will reflect on what went wrong thirty-something years ago.