The exhibition of the month for me is at GRAD (Gallery for Russian Arts and Design)
in London.
Work and Play Behind the Iron
Curtain shows consumer items from children’s toys, dolls and model Zils,
through fizzy pop vending machines (above) to a space age vacuum cleaner, record players,
telephones and, of course, radios.
There are just a couple of radios, a ladies
portable transistor and a Red Star Zveda 54, which all good citizens would gather
around in the evening in their cramped Stalinist apartment to hear news of
bumper harvests and the latest conquests of space.
I am writing more on the exhibition in the Collectors’ Corner feature in August’s Communication- journal of the British DX Club, so I won’t say more here for now, except, do go to GRAD! (Current exhibition is on until 23 August, with 'A Game in Hell' The First World War in Russia, from 27 September to 30 November 2014).
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