Cengel has written an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences in Latvia and Ukraine...

Carmack looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War...

"Ukraine 2030" offers a program that includes complex strategies for the economic development of Ukraine...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

Chamberlain delineates Uvarov's career and shows how one of the most cosmopolitan of men, became in the course of his official career the inventor of much that can be seen in to-day's xenophobic and nationalistic Russia of Vladimir Putin...

Brown examines the Soviet anti-religious campaign through a unique collection of illustrations,..

To this generation that includes writers as disparate as Gary Shteyngart and Irina Reyn comes Olga Zilberbourg...

The Short Course was designed to be the definitive party narrative, but the party purges and Stalin’s own personal preferences led to him stripping out the traditional historical framework...

Halperin’s Ivan IV emerges as a ruler at once less—and more—mysterious than in previous treatments of this subject...

Rubin-Detlev evaluates the place that Catherine sought to occupy in the intellectual and cultural landscape of her time...

Using a wealth of memoirs and recently declassified secret police files, Plokhy captures the intimate detail of a culture clash that chilled relations before Nazism was even defeated...

Khodarkovsky has taken a novel approach to charting the century by crafting one hundred vignettes, one for each year of the century...

There is perhaps no more iconic symbol of the Cold War than the Berlin Wall...

The idea of economic development was a relatively novel one even as late as the 1940s...

This memoir by one of the foremost scholars of the Soviet period spans three continents and more than half a century...

Why did intellectual path of Medieval Russian culture differ so much from its counterparts in Western Europe?

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Hundorova has written a compelling study of the literary changes that mark Ukrainian literature at the end of the 20th century...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history...

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Lillis paints a compelling picture of a nation that is still grappling with the consequences of Joseph Stalin’s devastating disruption...

Larry Diamond joins us this week to talk about the threat China’s model of authoritarian capitalism...

"No Path Home" is the engaging result of more than sixteen years of fieldwork in Georgian IDP camps.

Li offers a sophisticated argument that this all fed into an entire framework for socialist modernity which China sought to adopt at this crucial period in its history...

How have memes changed politics?