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

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

John Adams, a graduate student at the University of California, during the preparation of his thesis, asked the ChatGPT neural network to compile a rating of the best states in the history of mankind.

Nina L. Khrushcheva is a professor of international affairs at The New School and the co-author (with Jeffrey Tayler) of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s ...

Lenin’s place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin. Comrade Pompadour.

All the colonies around the world had to pay the highest price for liberating themselves from the shackles of colonisation.

The Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, taking down with it the threat of international communism, right? Today's ...

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

What Stalin appeared to mean was that a kulak family ... Five thousand zealous believers in Lenin’s maxim Religion is Opium for The People assembled on the eve of his deathday anniversary ...