I'm so happy to share with you some beautiful pictures of Russian children. The father-photographer took them in the 1970s in the former Soviet Union. With the death of President George Herbert Walker Bush on November 30, Mikhail Gorbachev has officially outlived...
Editor's Note: The following post was originally a comment about the Soviet childhood left on the Who Is Generation X page. I thought it offered a revealing and fascinating glimpse into life for Soviet and Russian youth and children who came of age during the 1970s to...
Thanks to International Youth Service, I became pen pals with a girl from Germany in 1980. Let's Be Pen Pals: International Youth Service Did you have pen pals growing up? My old scrapbook is filled with Hallmark date books, cards, pictures, elementary school track...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Oklahoma City Bombing and the Challenger Disaster are among the top 12 historic events for Generation X, according to a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center in association with A+E Networks’ History. Here are the events in...
In November 1985, President Reagan arrived in Geneva, Switzerland for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They met on the 19th and the meeting proved historic. The anniversary inspired me to look for some photos of Russians during that period of time. I...
Yesterday, was the 30th anniversary of the death of Samantha Smith. In 1983, Smith, an American schoolgirl, wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Prime Minister. Dear Mr. Andropov, My name is Samantha Smith. I am ten years old. Congratulations on your new job. I...
I've been thinking a lot about the Cold War since the Russian invasion of Crimea. December 1985 seems like an absolute lifetime ago. What were you doing then?
In the spring of 1993, thousands of people of all ages held hands and formed a circle around Tinker Air Force Base. They gathered outside the fence wearing T-shirts that said SAVE TINKER and waved flags and held signs. In just a few days they would discover Tinker's...
USSR, Soviet Nostalgia On The Rise In 1988, while shopping at the old outlet mall on Northwest Expressway and Council Road in Oklahoma City, I had the good fortune of running into a group of college students from the Soviet Union. They were Gen Xers just like me, and...
Discover 10 protest songs from the 1980s from 99 Luftballoons by Nena to Bastards of Young by The Replacements. The protest songs of Generation X explored war in the Falklands, violence in Northern Ireland, apartheid, and nuclear war. Also, unemployment, environmental...
"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working...
1985 USSR, originally uploaded by Roman on flickr. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." -- From Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov Fall of the Soviet Union I've been meaning to write about the 20th anniversary of the...