Olga Gurova studies the cultural history of underwear in the Soviet Union. “When I am talking about Soviet underwear,” she says, “I mean the underwear that appeared after the 1917 revolution.”
Dr Gurova is based at European University in St Petersburg. During the 2005-06 academic year she is visiting the US. Her lectures and writings are helping to fill the information gap that developed during the cold war….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian