USSR – Reports from the Soviet Union in its Final Days

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1. Field notes from a Revolution
This item is an introduction to the entire group of USSR writings and explains their context. The title reflects the idea that the 10 trip reports were written in real time before, during and after the critical events of the time when the Soviet Union collapsed. The actual writing is contained in the Trip Reports and the stories that follow with separate explanations. Read more>>

2. USSR – Reports from the Soviet Union in its Final Days
This item is an introduction to the entire group of USSR writings and explains their context. The title reflects the idea that the 10 trip reports were written in real time before, during and after the critical events of the time when the Soviet Union collapsed. The actual writing is contained in the Trip Reports and the stories that follow with separate explanations.

3. A Night in the Whitehouse
Describes the experience of travel in the Soviet Union immediately after its collapse. I was unable to obtain a flight and ended up sharing a compartment with a Russian woman who had given up on men in her country and shared her story with me. Read more>>

4. Night Train to Riga
Describes the experience of travel in the Soviet Union immediately after its collapse. I was unable to obtain a flight and ended up sharing a compartment with a Russian woman who had given up on men in her country and shared her story with me. Read more>>

5. USSR – Borderlines June 1996
A true story about the idiosyncrasies of borders in general and a particular Post-Soviet border in particular. This describes an eventually successful attempt to cross from Lithuania to Latvia when officialdom thought otherwise. Read more>>

6. A Bible Story
Published in “Marketplace” November/December 2011 edition together with photos. A series of events that took place during the period 1989-1992 when I spent a great deal of time in the Soviet Union. The events are linked by the common theme of activities around promoting a religious play, printing Bibles inside the Soviet Union and in the end smuggling an antique bible out of the country with the assistance of the KGB. Read more>>

7. How the KGB Helped me Smuggle my Bible
As published in the MEDA magazine Marketplace with pictures and Minor revisions” Read more>>

8. USSR – Economics and Morality Report – Jan 28, 1991
This article was written in response to the idea of developing ethics-based television programming for the emerging Soviet Union. The date indicates that it was written in January 1991, 7 months before the collapse of the USSR. It was not written by myself but was based on the work we were doing with Ethics conferences and some Television in the USSR at the time. The persons who met to develop these ideas are noted in the first paragraphs. It reflects an optimistic view of what could be accomplished at that early stage in a changing Soviet Union. The writer as noted is Paul Marshall. Read more>>