Soviet Playgrounds: Playful Landscapes of the Former USSR by David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka graphic novel they worked as taxi drivers

they worked as taxi drivers

addressing issues from controversial historical topics to the present military conflict in the East of the country

As an essayist

and about belonging and the meaning of progress

It examines why these conspiracy theories have emerged and gained currency in Russia and what role intellectuals have played in this process

Soviet Playgrounds: Playful Landscapes of the Former USSR by David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka graphic novel they worked as taxi driversThrough five chapters containing more than 150 photographs, the book documents the mass produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist era housing estates, such as rocket slides and earth shaped climbers, spaceships and animal themed ladders, cosmic roundabouts and bizarre objects that would probably raise safety concerns nowadays. From Riga to Dushanbe and all the way from Kyiv to Vladivostok, children dreamt of