"Six years ago, 22-year-old UCLA history student Justinian Jampol was in Berlin doing research when he came across some communist-era artifacts he wanted to save and ship home. It struck him that something should be done to prevent more of these relics from disappearing into, well, history."
Gregory Rodriguez in the Los Angeles Times explores Culver City's Wende Museum, dedicated to preserving the material culture of the Soviet Bloc.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Back in the USSR
Labels:
archaeology,
California,
Cold War,
cultural history,
museums
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