Margot Buff is a multimedia editor for RFE/RL.
The extraordinary photographs of Soviet-era Uzbekistan shot by Russian-born Max Penson were forgotten for decades, but his grandson has worked to bring them back to light.
In a dusty town in the Uzbek desert, a collection of once-banned Soviet-era art worth hundreds of millions of dollars is finally attracting the world’s attention.
When Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia 50 years ago, crushing the period of liberalization known as the Prague Spring, a young photographer named Libor Hajsky captured scenes of violence and fear -- as well as moments of empathy and dark humor.
Forty years ago this week, the first civic opposition movement in the Eastern Bloc was born, and a rock band was at its heart. Czechoslovak dissidents drew up the human rights petition known as Charter 77 after the Communist authorities jailed members of an underground musical group.
