Yana Skorobogatov

Yana Skorobogatov is a doctoral candidate in the history department at the University of California at Berkeley.

Recent Articles

Good Eggs: A Rare Look Inside the Soviet Caviar Harvest

Caviar is a delicacy for occasions like Valentine’s Day—but when LIFE went to a caviar plant in 1960, the scene was anything but delicate

By Yana Skorobogatov and Liz Ronk

The Surprisingly Wild and Crazy Summers of Young Soviets in the 1960s

How LIFE photographer Bill Eppridge captured a country in transition

By Yana Skorobogatov

See the Vintage Soviet Movie Posters That Were Also Political Tools

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum highlights how early modernist photography influenced Soviet art—and, in turn, Soviet politics

By Yana Skorobogatov

How a Photographer Captured the USSR's Dramatic Rise as the U.S. Economy Tanked

On August 29, 1991, the Soviet Parliament suspended the activities of the Communist Party. But when LIFE photographer Margaret Bourke-White visited the country in 1930, she found an empire on the rise.

By Yana Skorobogatov

How a Teenager Sentenced to Life in Prison Became the Involuntary Face of Reform

When 14-year-old Barney Lee was sentenced to life in prison, he became a human experiment for new theories of penal reform

By Yana Skorobogatov
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