Episode list

"The big neighbor to the east" - has had a major impact on its neighbours.

"Volga - the little mother" - the might river, the markets, the new Russian commercial privatization, religion and the old days.

White birds on black sky - a walk through Russian culture areas like dance, art och literature.

"Stalin's steel mill" - heavy industry in a new phase, consumer goods and privatization in Magnitogorsk.

"The Price of Survival" - depicts post-war Soviet cultural life. Several generations of artists, writers and performers had to pay a high price for the inexorably disintegrating system's grip on culture and the spiritual life of man. Many of them was simply not existing, in the Soviet system.