After Stalin’s death in 1953, Soviet society entered a period of cautious reform, but Jewish communities continued to face ...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who tried to modernize and liberalize USSR society before overseeing the empire’s fall in 1991, died this week. Many AEI scholars at the time wrote extensively ...

His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.

Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...

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 ...

IN THE Soviet Union, at the end of World War II, there was widespread hope of relief from the excesses of Stalinism. That hope quickly died as Stalin, virtually deified by every instrument of ...

When Volpin returned to society, he immersed himself in the stringent logic of Soviet cybernetics and began to train his singular outlook against the political system. In 1959, Volpin composed Free ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

Back in the old Soviet Union, the political joke was the principal underground conduit of political opinion. One that made the rounds soon after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985 posed this ...

FOR very many years one of the show places of the Soviet Union has been the huge automobile factory at Gorky named after Molotov, where the ZIM cars are made. It is one of the prides of Soviet ...

Mr. Schmemann, a member of the editorial board, was The Times’s Moscow bureau chief in the 1980s and ’90s and is the author of “Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village.” Back in ...