Nevertheless, The Sound of Utopia infuses a bleak subject with verve, inspiring admiration for musicians so dedicated to ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...

It was founded in 1931 to transform a desert area into a model metropolis by mobilizing the best architects, engineers and ...

Rations and medical care were substandard, but were often not dramatically better elsewhere in Stalin's Soviet Union and were not designed to hasten the inmates' deaths, although they certainly ...

Union everywhere. The intensity of the anti-Tito campaign shows the importance which the Soviet leaders attach to it, and hence to what they are attacking. Stalin’s life is not directly involved ...

This three-minute phone call is the subject of A Dictator Calls, the last novel by the leading Albanian writer, intellectual ...

"The Soviet Union took on the West and lost," he said. Sikorski said that Putin "is on the record saying that under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union overspent on the military and bankrupted the country." ...

Trump fanatics and ‘Darkness at Noon’ “Darkness at Noon” by Alex Koestler is a classic in political science. Written in 1940, this book depicts life during Stalin’s purges in the Soviet Union in the ...

Because of Central Asia’s isolation from the world during the Soviet era, these artists remain little studied outside the ...