Meatier reading than for several years is the Soviet Union’s censored press today. Reason: more than 2,000,000 brand new elective jobs have been created by Russia’s new Constitution (TIME, June 15, ...
Briefly, we want you to return to Soviet Russia and to send reports on the situation there. We wish to be accurately informed as to the attitude of every section of the community, the degree of ...
On 9 August this year, it will be the 50th death anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich, a prominent musical figure of the 20th century. Born in St. Petersburg in 1906, Shostakovich studied piano with his ...
On a snowy night, Matthew Springer, instructor at Columbia's Russian Institute, introduced the evening's speaker, Alexandrei Petramovitch, a Menshevik or moderate Socialist. Petramovitch bored the ...
The often misunderstood history of the Soviet dissident movement. In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself at key ...
IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a new structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Similar floral-themed displays have sprung up across Beijing in ...
During the Cold War, the Soviet military undertook a secret mapping program that’s only recently come to light in the West. Military cartographers created hundreds of thousands of maps and filled them ...
The Soviet remaking of the Pale Jews. The trials and tribulations of a tumultuous period. Jewish children in the Soviet Union’s youth movement in Minsk. Established in 1791 as the exclusive zone where ...