Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.

Musicians in the Time of Stalin by Michel Krielaars emphasises the challenges artists faces during the Soviet era.

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners from forced labour camps built railroad tracks in one of the most inhospitable regions of ...

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners from forced labour camps built railway tracks in one of the most inhospitable regions of ...

The annexation of Western Ukraine to the USSR was a political mistake by Joseph Stalin, which led to major negative ...

The 75th anniversary of the large hydroelectric power station commissioned by Stalin, still the second largest in Russia, was ...

Keller Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) to ...

TODAY is the 85th anniversary of the first of a series of mass deportations from Poland’s eastern borderlands to Siberia.

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested ... noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and ...

On 11th September 1930, members of an elusive secret society were arrested by Joseph Stalin's secret police. Could these have been the last of the Russian Templars? Some historians argue this was ...

When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise. But that dream turned into a nine ...