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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... →

23/07/2017 - 13:14

My point is that it’s not easy at all; no, it’s not easy. My point is that it is not possible to imagine a world without other worlds.... →

19/07/2017 - 11:58

The project was implemented by the Kyiv History Museum and the Public Committee «Babyn Yar», with support from the Ukrainian Institute of... →

03/07/2017 - 12:04

The early Communist movement never rejected this broad premise. It was born out of a sense of betrayal by the more moderate left-wing... →

21/06/2017 - 13:00

In too many instances, discrimination and racism created gaps between ethnic groups and between religions, phenomena that have still not... →

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