In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private ...

NOT BY BREAD ALONE (512 pp.)—Vladimir Dudintsev—Dutton ($4.95). No less a literary critic than Nikita S. Khrushchev has called this book “wrong at the root” and misrepresenting life “as through a ...

At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No one ...

To wrap up our Arts Special, our columnist starts an occasional series looking at rail’s relationship with literature ...

In a very peculiar coincidence, for two days in a row I found, on the front page of American papers, articles dealing with Russian history and culture. It is no surprise that today's newspapers paid ...

Explore the Russian coal mining town of Barentsburg, located near the North Pole on the Svalbard archipelago, Norway. This ...

Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during Christmas. Thirty-three years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, ...

Ann Foley, a part-time real estate agent, lived a middle-class, all-American lifestyle with her husband, Don, and their two sons, in Cambridge, Mass., home of many of America’s most prestigious ...