The Bam Zone - Permanent Residents
The uncompleted Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad in Siberia is a powerful symbol of the stagnation of the Brezhnev years. Behind the marches and songs praising the project, equipment was breaking down, lives were broken, and souls became calloused. The track was built at great social and economic...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Russian |
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The American-Soviet Film Initiative Moscow
1987
Soviet Union |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:8ddf444d-1d21-4dda-a5e4-a96969b17587 |
| Summary: | The uncompleted Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) Railroad in Siberia is a powerful symbol of the stagnation of the Brezhnev years. Behind the marches and songs praising the project, equipment was breaking down, lives were broken, and souls became calloused. The track was built at great social and economic cost, yet it lies there and is of no use. |
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| Published: | 1987 |