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

How did Russia come to be the kind of nation that it is? What are the roots of its particular identity? Gregory Carleton and Serhii Plokhy take on these questions, and both turn to similar events in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...