Soviet Union
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... →
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... →
28/05/2017 - 13:22
The Polish-born strategist became a lightning rod for criticism over the roles he played in the Iranian hostage crisis, a broad but... →
09/05/2017 - 15:12
The Soviet Union lost more than 20 million people in World War II and bore the brunt of the fighting in Europe between 1941 and 1944.... →
19/01/2017 - 13:10
It is now a quarter-century since the Soviet Union disintegrated; and 2017 will mark the centennial of the Russian Revolution, which... →
27/09/2016 - 13:12
The Jewish Autonomous Republic was established 8,000 kms (5,000 miles) from Moscow, in a place whose the soil was not suitable for farming... →
10/09/2016 - 12:23
This would never happen, and in many respects neither really would Birobidzhan, named for the nearby rivers Bira and Bidzhan. Very few Jews... →
12/04/2016 - 13:00
In an attempt to explain why so many Jewish leaders were being fired, arrested or executed between 1948 and 1953, the articles were filled... →
06/02/2016 - 16:05
The dichotomy between the new and the familiar in contemporary Russia can be broken down into a handful of contradictions that neither... →
13/07/2015 - 22:08
Who better to discuss the latest flare-up in relations over Ukraine? Alarmingly, given his long observation of the interplay between Russia... →
11/05/2015 - 12:02
I learned about the other side of the Great Patriotic War from personal stories, from my parents, from clandestine foreign radio broadcasts... →