Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to the United States. In her newly ...
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 ...
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
On Friday, May 9, military parades and various festive events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies over the Third Reich took place throughout Russia. The ...
Khazanov’s detailed research focuses on the “anti-Soviet discourse on the pre-Soviet past.” Based on the work of the late Soviet thinkers, writers, poets, and filmmakers, he discovers that, as early ...
A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...
Three years. 10 months. 18 days.As of January 12, that’s the amount of time that’s elapsed since Russia launched its all-out ...
As Arctic ice thins and shipping lanes open, Russia has stumbled on a chilling legacy of the Cold War: a long-lost Soviet ...