USSR – Frontline Club https://www.frontlineclub.com Championing Independent Journalism Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:15:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.frontlineclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-FC_Logo_Circle-32x32.png USSR – Frontline Club https://www.frontlineclub.com 32 32 46582028 Power, Politics and Performance in Russia: Collective Memory and the Cult of Stalin https://www.frontlineclub.com/power-politics-and-performance-in-russia-collective-memory-and-the-cult-of-stalin/ https://www.frontlineclub.com/power-politics-and-performance-in-russia-collective-memory-and-the-cult-of-stalin/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2016 14:52:46 +0000 https://www.frontlineclub.com/?p=55209 https://www.frontlineclub.com/power-politics-and-performance-in-russia-collective-memory-and-the-cult-of-stalin/feed/ 0 55209 BBC Storyville Preview: George Blake – Masterspy of Moscow + Q&A https://www.frontlineclub.com/bbc-storyville-preview-george-blake-the-making-of-a-traitor-qa/ https://www.frontlineclub.com/bbc-storyville-preview-george-blake-the-making-of-a-traitor-qa/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:43:14 +0000 https://www.frontlineclub.com/?p=48814 George Carey. In April 1953, George Blake returned to Britain as a national hero, one of a small group of British diplomats who returned alive from three hard years as prisoner of the North Koreans. When the new Queen was crowned a couple of months later, he was among the select few invited to celebrate the day in No. 2 Carlton Gardens, a discreet building overlooking the Mall from where the men who ran Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service were watching the royal procession go by. Little did they know that during his time as a prisoner he had become a Communist and decided to work for the KGB. In The Making of a Traitor, director George Carey speaks to Blake's close acquaintances, historians and other former spies to chronicle his curious history.]]> https://www.frontlineclub.com/bbc-storyville-preview-george-blake-the-making-of-a-traitor-qa/feed/ 0 48814 The End of the Wall: 25 Years After the Fall https://www.frontlineclub.com/the-end-of-the-wall-25-years-after-the-fall/ https://www.frontlineclub.com/the-end-of-the-wall-25-years-after-the-fall/#respond Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:07:06 +0000 https://www.frontlineclub.com/?p=46897 https://www.frontlineclub.com/the-end-of-the-wall-25-years-after-the-fall/feed/ 0 46897