‘Muppets in Moscow’ Recounts How Sesame Street Reached Red Square
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a beloved Western children’s show exported American values to youngsters born behind the Iron Curtain.
‘Muppets in Moscow: The Unexpected Crazy True Story of Making Sesame Street in Russia‘
By Natasha Lance Rogoff
Rowman & Littlefield, 302 pages
The premise of “Muppets in Moscow” sounds like the setup to a joke: How did Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, and a new cast of Slavic Muppets expand the Sesame Street neighborhood into the former Eastern Bloc after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
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