Eight Pieces of Empire, Part 1: Farewell Leningrad, Farewell Empire

Welcome to The Workers Reading Room. This reading is Eight Pieces of Empire by Lawrence Scott Sheets, Part 1: Farewell Leningrad, Farewell Empire.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:18 A civil war outside my door
15:59 Our Communal
26:14 Tears of a KGB man
50:20 A Bigamist bandit and a button maker
1:31:25 Sickle and hammer down, an empires last hours
1:39:21 Outro

All art in the slideshow comes from a Soviet art group on Vkontakte with admin permission.

1. Fedosov Nikita Petrovych (1939-1992) Before the storm 1985
2.Filimonov Anatoly Georgievich (1949-2002) Guests from the series Petishism 1979
3.Gagarina Lidia Ivanovna (1902-1984) Circus 1957
4.Kobelev Vasily Alekseevich (1895-1946) Evening 1940
5.Myasnikov Fyodor Isaakovich (1913-1979) Sverdlov Square 1960
6.Reikhet Petr Viktorovich (1953-2013) Until the next navigation 1980s
7.Samusev Fedor Afanasevich (Panasovich) (1913-1985) Reflections, searches 1969
8.Saykina Alexandra Vasilievna (1925-2017) Mushroom season
9.Semakov Gennady Anatolyevich (1926-2015) In new conditions 1957
10.Sharyga Vladimir Mikhailovich (1935-2013) On the road 1975
11.Sidorov Valentin Mikhailovich (1928) Morning in the Cellar 1954
12.Tikhomirov Leonid Petrovich (1926-2016) Snowy Moscow 1950s
13.Vaks Boris (Bentzion) Iosifovich (1912-1989) On the whole 1961
14.Vasiliev Valentin Mykhailovych (1940-1986) High-rise installers 1977
15.Vedernikov Yuliy Anatolyevich (1943-2015) Our Grandfathers Frost
16.Vitkovsky Lev Ivanovich (1931-2008) Before the shift 1957
17.Yablonskaya Tatyana Nilovna (1917-2005) Done 1977
18.Yakupov Kharis Abdrakhmanovich (1919-2010) Chelnin beauties 1975
19.Zaitsev Nikolai Egorovich (1942) Noon. Harvest 1971
20.Zyryanov Alexander Petrovich (1928) Perm, cafe Cosmos 1962

Outro music is Soviet revolutionary song - Wondrous Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oWqXudgWJc&list=PL6Y5DvXWEvxo0hFg81vOVSGi7NI32lhs_&index=53