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 ...

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 ...

A new book explores the legacy of the Soviet Union’s human spaceflight program Diane Tedeschi Yuri Gagarin’s status as an icon is evident in Russia’s many memorials for the pioneering cosmonaut, ...

Author weaves lives of die-hard apparatchiks with the dreams of young Russian musicians more inspired by Dylan than ...

This is a re-upload because the old video was deleted on accident* The communist revolution in Russia, the Great War, the ...

Based on vast archival material, Klots’s book offers an insightful analysis of how the Soviet state struggled with the issue of domestic service even as it pledged to do away with inequality and ...

What if Nazi Germany never fought Britain, never sent Rommel to Africa, and never declared war on America? What if[...] ...

Based on an immense body of scholarly literature, Hornsby’s narrative is broad rather than deep. His “sixties” begin in 1953, with the death of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s successor, ...

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“Assassination is the extreme form of censorship”. This George Bernard Shaw maxim ran through my mind as I walked around the one-room Banned Books Museum in Tallinn’s Old Town. As I examined the ...