Julia Ioffe’s much-anticipated memoir and history of Russia offers an original take on America’s long-time adversary ...

IN the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Russian leaders believed that by removing both the legal and economic bonds of family life they would make possible the development of “true ...

Julia Ioffe’s new blend of history and family biography takes on the contradictions of female selfhood in Soviet Russia, from achievement to marginalization ...

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.

Vol. 68, No. 10, Special Issue: Against the Grain: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Swain (December 2016), pp. 1635-1653 (19 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. This essay examines how Russia's ...

To have supposed a short week ago that the colossal Russian bureaucratic machine, which for three hundred years has withstood assaults from within and without, would to-day be scrapped beside the ...

Manuscripts pertaining to Jewish life and lore in Eastern Europe, some of them at least 1000 years old, are being sold by the Soviet Union to the National Library in Ottawa as part of a new cultural ...

Confiscating the assets of companies that have fled Russia after the invasion of Ukraine would shatter investor confidence for decades and take Russia back to the calamitous days of the 1917 Bolshevik ...