The Painting, the Photograph and the War for Ukraine’s Culture
An image depicting a famous 19th-century painting of Cossacks, with current Ukrainian soldiers standing in for the warriors, ...
As Russia seeks influence in Africa, former students play central role
Going back to the days of the Cold War, many Africans studied in the Soviet Union and later Russia. They’re now among ...
Foreign Affairs4d
Patriot: A Memoir
The posthumous memoir by Navalny, the late Russian opposition leader, mingles the account of a politician with the story of a martyr.
New Eastern Europe4d
How to convey a war: a review of Oleksandr Mykhed’s The Language of War
Ukraine’s continued resistance against the Russian aggression is also clear in the field of literature with many authors ...
Foreign Affairs4d
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.