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Katherine Leung review Barbara Martin's Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika.

“Is that your car?” Khusnidin asked, pointing to the UAZ Hunter my friend and I had rented in Bishkek. “I have a Soviet car as well, a white Lada Niva” he said proudly, as my friend plowed the [...]

Thirty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation, many still want to describe the Russian economy, society, and political scenes as “transitional”. [...]

In light of the recent upheavals and political unrest in Kazakhstan, Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon writes about the need to change public perception and portrayals of Kazakhstan in global news and [...]

December marked 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Be it the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, a return to Europe or the beginning of a new era of [...]

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.

Katherine Leung reviews The Women's Revolution by Judy Cox.

Martina Urbinati asks whether it still makes sense to speak of a post-Soviet cultural space? 

Patricia Manos introduces us to one of Russia's most famous 20th-century artists. A giant among giants, meet Vera Mukhina.

Andrei Konchalovsky’s latest feature film, Dear Comrades begins in June 1962 with a simple premise: the workers of Novochercassk are protesting and the local government is struggling to [...]