On this book’s first page, we learn two things. First, that the main character wishes that her cancer-stricken mother “would die soon”. Second, that the only plausible relief from the ...

Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...

It is little wonder then that Doctor Zhivago (Pantheon, $5.00), the first novel of this foremost living Russian poet, should be anticipated as an important revelation of Soviet life and a prophecy ...

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain and subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union during the 1989-1992 period, the nations of the Soviet Empire produced a fascinating range of cars, trucks ...

The Russian-language movie blends romantic comedy with a subversive commentary on the state-enforced sameness of Soviet life, which gave it an edgy appeal. Despite its veiled criticism ...