Navalny’s crime, of course, was that he exposed the staggering levels of lying, cheating, stealing and embezzling that Putin ...

White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

Schlögel’s aim is to show what life was like under the Soviet system – and it succeeds magnificently. I’ve rarely found a book so able to conjure an image of a particular time and space ...

In his new book, Borenstein examines the peculiar evocation of time and history in literature, film, video games, and other cultural forms, a discourse generated by the failure of Russians to fully ...

With The Sound of Utopia, Michael Krielaars offers a chattily accessible survey of the musicians who lived beholden to the KGB’s whims ...

Sheila Fitzpatrick’s fascinating book chronicles a remarkable success story: the repatriation and resettlement of millions of displaced persons (DPs) in Europe after the second World War.

Further, Soviet and Indian positions converged in many areas, including decolonisation and the new international economic order that the non-aligned countries championed. Russia also paid outward ...