Stalinism reduced the Soviet Union to a nation of whisperers. Fearing denunciation by neighbors, colleagues, friends, and even relatives, citizens across the country spoke in hushed tones behind ...

Among the quirkier facets of Soviet culture in the decade following World War II was the popularity of movies featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’s vine-swinging ape-man, Tarzan. In 1952, four Tarzan ...

In his youth and rise to power under Stalin, he reflected the typical Russian suspicion of Jews as “different,” though his ...

UNDER STRICT EMBARGO UNTIL 19:01 US EDT ON SUNDAY 20 TH JULY 2025 / 00:01 UK TIME (BST) ON MONDAY 21 ST JULY 2025 Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable ...

Barnes’s 12th novel, The Noise of Time, comes with an afterword in which the author explains that the subject of the book, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, was just as hard to pin down as ...

For seven years I only read Russian writers, Boris Pasternak, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and my favorite, Alexander Ilyich Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn wrote of life under Stalin. Solzhenitsyn ...

The fact that Sidney Reilly was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond tells us a lot about the life that Reilly lived.

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...