Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

A detailed look at the Russian Revolution of 1917, exploring the February Revolution, the fall of the Tsar, and the pillars of Russian society that shaped it.

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...

The first decades following the Russian Revolution saw enormous changes in women’s social role, but early promises of ...

Russia’s manipulation of history has evolved from symbolic memory politics into a deliberate instrument of state power aimed ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Journalist Julia Ioffe sheds new light on Russia's feminist history in her new book "Motherland." A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the ...

A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia. MOSCOW—Julia Ioffe’s new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco), immediately ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...