Set during the Polish-Soviet War of 1919–1920, Babel’s novel captured the indiscriminate violence and injustice of warfare.

Research reports and scholarly articles on the history of the Ukraine-Russia conflicts of the past and possible paths for peace.

Free from Russian dictates over language usage and education, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan prepare to embrace Latin lettering. It’s the latest chapter in the region’s fraught history of alphabet reform.

Neither supernatural forces nor Soviet censors were able to suppress individual creativity and determination.

Russia's rise as an imperial power was built on intercontinental expansion, and a mission of "civilizing, protecting and educating" the conquered.

A Russian court has ruled the country's oldest human rights organization must be dissolved. The work they do required trust from those who had lived under Stalin.

Why did the Russian tsar seek to ban beards?

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov's hypothesis on the evolution of rye is now accepted. But in the 1930s, his research got him arrested.

The most important factors that steered Russia away from democracy, says one scholar, weren't inevitable.

As time went on, the dragons in Russian iconography slowly became more Western in style—just like Russia itself.