Foreign Affairs1d
M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography
White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
Foreign Affairs1d
From Incarceration to Repatriation: German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Grunewald significantly enhances understandings of the fate of Germans captured by the Soviet Union during World War II.
SBS9mon
Writer Rustam Alexander: “The issue of sexuality in the USSR has been resolved. People don't think about it"
“The Intimate Life of the Soviet Union" is set to be released in Russia soon. Its author, Rustam Alexander, lives in Australia and came to the studio of SBS to talk about his new book.