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24/12/2017 - 15:22

Having grown up desperately poor at the turn of the 20th century, Lysenko believed wholeheartedly in the promise of the communist... →

18/12/2017 - 12:40

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution is being discussed so little on its centenary in Russia that there is speculation abroad that it’s being... →

13/12/2017 - 14:30

“Is that what you’re wearing?” the security guard asked as I stood at the entrance to the giant Wadi Mujib gorge in southern Jordan. I was... →

07/12/2017 - 13:37

Show one of those, and a shop assistant who didn't know you would happily let you walk out of the store with an armful of goods you'd not... →

18/11/2017 - 13:00

The odds, in short, were stacked heavily against a successful bid for power by the Bolsheviks. That’s why it’s all the more remarkable that... →

18/11/2017 - 12:40

During the Holocaust, it served as a pretext for the murder of countless Jews across Eastern Europe by self-proclaimed enemies of communism... →

18/11/2017 - 12:33

How did this remarkable transformation come about? The characteristics of the system that seemed to be disadvantages in the 19th... →

02/11/2017 - 13:44

The title of Masha Gessen’s latest, Where the Jews Aren’t: The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region... →

28/10/2017 - 13:06

Mr Putin has earned that title by lifting his country out of what many Russians see as the chaos in the 1990s and by making it count again... →

28/10/2017 - 12:27

So let’s attempt to join up some of the dots of Russian history, to trace a line from 1917 to 2017. It is very much a story of revolutions... →

17/10/2017 - 16:22

Terry Gross: Let's talk briefly about the ways Russia has been interfering in Ukraine for the past couple of years. Maybe you can... →

16/09/2017 - 12:39

It all amounted to nothing. Mengele never saw justice. For the first time, it’s possible to say why the Mossad failed to apprehend the man... →

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