Dmitri Shostakovich became one of the Soviet Union’s most famous composers while living under the constant threat of Stalin’s ...

If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.

Under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the U.S.S.R. attempted reforms in the mid-1950s that would steer away from the ...

Recent reports suggest these orders came directly from the top levels of the Russian government and have Putin’s blessing. Insiders believe the purges are just beginning, pointing to Putin’s recent ...

The Kremlin has increasingly embraced the Soviet dictator and his legacy, using them to exalt Russian history in a time of war, but he remains a deeply divisive figure in Russia. By Ivan Nechepurenko ...

A monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin erected in Moscow’s subway is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it’s a mistake to commemorate ...

Covering or removing a Soviet-era decoration is not destruction. Placing it in a museum is not destruction either, writes ...

Moscow metro unveils new Stalin monument Some Russians say it's important to remember Stalin Critics say his victims should be honoured instead MOSCOW, May 22 (Reuters) - A monument to Soviet dictator ...

Sergei Loznitsa’s “Two Prosecutors” works on two levels, as historical realism and as Kafkaesque allegory. Perhaps its setting makes that inevitable: the Soviet Union circa 1937, in the midst of the ...

Russians throughout the country on October 29 commemorated the victims of Soviet repression with an annual event organized by the Memorial human rights group, which itself was banned and shut down by ...