In the late 1970s, three photographers -- Vladimir Vorobyov, Vladimir Sokolayev, and Aleksandr Trofimov -- got a job at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. Their ...

Alexander Zinoviev, 83, a prominent author whose biting satires of life under communism caused him to be exiled for more than 20 years, died Wednesday, Moscow State University confirmed. No cause of ...

Abandoned photographs found on the front line of the Ukraine conflict reveal intimate moments of life before the war. Now the Australian photojournalist who discovered them hopes he can return the ...

Bill Aron, “Gates to Leningrad Synagogue” (1981) (image courtesy the artist) LOS ANGELES — In 1981, photographer Bill Aron flew to the Soviet Union to document the lives of Jews living under ...

The film explores the complexities of life in the Soviet Union during the post-Stalin era, highlighting the contrast between the technological advancements and the persistent influence of traditional ...

KULYAB, Tajikistan — Two dead children, one invalid, one who left for the capital, fate unknown. One unemployed, one in the army, and three working in the cotton fields of Tajikistan, where they get ...

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...

According to various Russian state media accounts, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91 after a long illness. Gorbachev played a pivotal role in ending the Cold War, and ...

In the Soviet Union, every literary work was a political statement, whether the writer liked it or not. Soviet censorship allowed some room for negotiation, but outside the USSR, official and ...

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 ...

It isn't every day that one of the creators of a political thriller gets to ask its real-life protagonist to evaluate the novel's plot. But that happened when the late Billy Wireman, president of ...

Full documentation of the official Soviet Government policy of “strangulation” of Jewish life in the USSR–not only lingual, cultural and religious, but even educational, civic and political–is ...