History of the Russian Revolution of 1917: this is a deeply researched animated history video about the February Revolution in Russia. We begin in March 1917 as the war-exhausted Russian populace ...

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” traces how Russian history and literature have shaped – and been shaped by – its deep forests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Vladimir Putin has draped himself in old-fashioned, medieval conceptions of Russian history to add symbolic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers from the Ukrainian group ‘Platsdarm’ collect and transport the bodies of fallen Russian soldiers. Up to 250,000 are ...

How did Russia come to be the kind of nation that it is? What are the roots of its particular identity? Gregory Carleton and Serhii Plokhy take on these questions, and both turn to similar events in ...

A Russian feminist reflects on Julia Ioffe’s history of modern Russia. MOSCOW—Julia Ioffe’s new book, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy (Ecco), immediately ...

Within the field of Russian religious art, Russian icons hold a singular place within the country’s art historical traditions. First emerging in the 11th century, despite their significance they have ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...

To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...