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Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double ...

On Monday, as I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

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 ...

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her worries, newly ...

A man’s life depended on this symphony. That man was the composer himself. There are hundreds of books on Dmitri Shostakovich’s life, which remains something of a mystery: Did he despise the Soviet ...

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 ...