Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...

Grigori Rasputin is one of the most notorious names in Russian history - and his piercing eyes, creepy gaze, greasy hair, and bushy beard only add to the mystique surrounding him. The Mad Monk, as he ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

In October 1917, the Russian working class accomplished something never before seen: it seized state power and began administering society in the interests of the majority. This was no simple regime ...

(NEW YORK ) — Russia’s Communists, dwindling in numbers and sidelined by the authorities, on Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the uprising led by Vladimir Lenin and his ...

IN JULY 2021 Vladimir Putin published an essay with arguments he would later use to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It raced through 1,000 years of history to argue that Russians and Ukrainians ...