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

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...

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

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?

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

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

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

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

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?

Hale-Dorrell re-evaluates Khrushchev’s corn campaign as the cornerstone of his reformation programs...

Demuth reveals how people have turned ecological wealth in a remote region into economic growth and state power for more than 150 years...

Issacs uses cinema as an analytical tool to demonstrate the constructed and contested nature of Kazakh national identity...

From Moscow, the world looks different...

Wijermars discusses how history is being reimagined by in pop culture and by the Russian government to give legitimacy and a sense of history to the Putin regime.

Holmes uses the case study of the Pedagogical Institute during the war years to explore power relationships in the institute and between local/ regional power and central power in Moscow...

Food plays a pivotal role throughout Russian history, but perhaps no more so than during the Soviet era, when the perennial Russian cycle of feast and famine took on a highly political aspect...

Sahadeo looks at the migrant experiences of peoples from the Caucuses and Central Asia in the late Soviet and early Post-Soviet periods ( 1960s-1990s)...