简介：TheBolshevikrevolution,thecoldwar,andthecollapseoftheSovietUniondefinedthehistoryofthetwentiethcentury.Withsuchapast,whatdoesitmeantobeRussiantoday?RobinHessman'slovinglycrafteddocumentary,MyPerestroika,adoptstheideaofthe“everymanstory,”suggestingthattheunheraldedlivesofthelastgenerationofSovietstogrowupbehindtheironcurtainholdthekeytounderstandingthecontradictionsofmodernRussiafromtheinsideout. Craftedduringfiveyearsofresearchingandshooting,andbasedonalmostadecadeoflivinginRussiainthe1990s,Hessman'sfilmpoeticallyinterweavesanextraordinarytroveofhomemovies,Sovietpropagandafilms,andintimateaccesstofiveschoolmateswhoselinked,butverydifferent,historiesofferamovingportraitofnewlymiddle-classRussianslivinglivestheycouldneverhaveimaginedwhentheyweregrowingup.…