Communication Director Andrew Hartwell peaks out from some Soviet era paintings including one where someone shot Lenin in the head and a Soviet farm girl at The Wende Museum in Culver City. (Photo by ...

A s Olga Grushin notes at the end of "The Line," her second novel is rooted in historical fact: "In 1962, the celebrated Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky accepted a Soviet invitation to ...

According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, died... The life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail ...

He is not the first to use this approach. American historian Steve Kotkin, in his ground-breaking 1995 book, Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilisation, depicted the Stalin years as a distinct ...

I heard an apocryphal story several years ago that went something like: Americans had tried to export reality TV and game shows to post-Soviet Russia, but nobody watched them because nobody in Russia ...

When communication systems are manipulated or cut off entirely by demagogues, the comedian's voice is the only one to be heard. Serious forms of communication are easy to devalue, but comedy can slip ...

One distinction cannot be denied the Soviet Union: it is the only countryin the world whose civil servants keep darting out of the night, shouting that the Russian secret police are at their heels and ...