Editor: Forty-one years ago, I took a course called “Contemporary Russia” taught by a Russian emigre who escaped from the USSR. We learned what life was like in an economically depressed, spiritually ...

At this year’s BookExpo America, in Chicago, one news release among hundreds stood out for its chilly remembrance of things past. “Outcry Against Putin’s Book Censorship Campaign to Surface in the U.S ...

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A: In my hometown, Gomel, Belarus, when it was still part of the former USSR. The government had banned rock ‘n’ roll, to play or listen to it. But we could hear it on shortwave radio. I fell in love ...

Hey, kids, meet Josef Stalin. New Russian high school textbooks – introduced in August 2023 on the instruction of President Vladimir Putin – attempt to whitewash Stalinist crimes and rehabilitate the ...

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My parents left everything behind in the Soviet Union for a better life. Their friends, clothes and careers couldn’t follow them aboard Delta flight 217, but poverty did. The picture is bleak, but ...