Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union entered a period known as the Khrushchev Thaw, marked by limited political and cultural liberalization. The shift allowed writers, ...

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 ...

Much like Joseph Stalin, the Russian president has used propaganda, the media and government-sanctioned books to present an ahistorical narrative History of Now Richard Cohen - Author, Making History: ...

VOICES OF OCTOBER—Art and Literature in Soviet Russia—Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz, Louis Lozowick—Vanguard ($4). A glance at the bibliography of 67 books appended to this volume will indicate how ...

A professor at Hunter College has built one of the largest special collections of contraband Russian literature in the world. By Sarah Chatta Millions of banned books were smuggled into the Soviet ...

Drawing on extensive new material, including unpublished diaries, private letters, and KGB interrogation transcripts, this insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who ...

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 ...

Tomas Sniegon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Remember perestroika? That was Mikhail Gorbachev’s ill-fated experiment in reform in the late 1980s which ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The perestroika story, as we read ...