Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...

The recovered voices movement aims to preserve the work of persecuted artists like Viktor Ullmann and Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order with a deceptively benign title: “Restoring Truth and Sanity to ...

An award given to a photographer working for Russia's state-run media agency has caused an outcry. The World Press Photo Award jury was also criticized for pairing images of a traumatized child and of ...

In the Soviet Union, this control was not limited to symbolic gestures – it reshaped the entire academic system. Under Josef Stalin, academic survival depended less on scholarly merit than on ...

Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term “hypernormalisation” to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

Keywords Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, communism, Warsaw Pact, liberalization, nationalism, Cold War, reform, peaceful coexistence, Iron Curtain Vatican reveals official cause of death of Pope ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

Official recognition of the Soviet Olympic Committee in May 1951 made it possible for the U.S.S.R. to participate in the 1952 Olympic Games. In 1955 Moscow permitted the international exchange of ...