The untold story of Yugoslavia’s naturist paradise

Comments | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 1 year ago

The bureaucracy of hiking Hungary's Blue Trail

Hikers who brave Hungary’s Blue Trail must face down unexpected obstacles and a litany of rules | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

Radical Polish books to add to your reading list

Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

Prague's Brutalist Buildings

Prague is best known for its picturesque Old Town — but its brutalist beauty lies just below the surface | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

A Yugoslav art movement that predicted the birth of digital art

60 years ago, a modest exhibition opened in the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. It became an international phenomenon | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

Next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means

Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is… | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

The heavens underground: Soviet Union’s opulent metro stations

Owen Hatherley and Christopher Herwig court our long-held fascination with Soviet metro stations | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

Snow Ghosts: Soviet military industrial power frozen in time

Snow ghosts: Soviet military-industrial power frozen in time | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 2 years ago

Video game lets you do nothing in particular in a suburban Russian tower block

You can make eggs on toast, take out the bins and contemplate life | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 3 years ago

The Soviet web: the tale of how the USSR almost invented the internet

When brilliant Soviet cyberneticist Viktor Glushkov designed a blueprint for a computerised planning system, the Soviet Union looked on track to become… | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 3 years ago

Snow Ghosts (2016)

Snow ghosts: haunting images of derelict Soviet infrastructure | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 3 years ago

A last glimpse of Moscow’s beautiful and derelict Soviet cinemas

These architectural wonders are soon to become shopping centres | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 3 years ago

Soviet space dreams: looking for the legacy of the USSR’s cult of outer space

A special project on space and the USSR | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 4 years ago

Would you wear this avant-garde jewellery to protect your identity from CCTV?

This brass mask looks like futuristic jewellery — but it’s really an act of rebellion | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 4 years ago

Into the Zone: 4 days inside Chernobyl’s secretive ‘stalker’ subculture

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has long been a tourist hotspot. Now, in the face of this commodification, young Ukrainian men are breaking into the… | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 5 years ago

Tech sector has a big problem with women. Bulgaria has the answer

While women are woefully under-represented in most tech industries across the world, in Bulgaria they make up nearly one third of the workforce. The… | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 5 years ago

Picture houses: a last glimpse of Moscow’s beautiful and derelict Soviet cinemas

These architectural wonders are soon to become shopping centres | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 5 years ago

Forget driverless cars: it’s time for robotic Russian ice cream trucks

In Russia, ice cream finds you | Continue reading


@calvertjournal.com | 5 years ago