"An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper"--

From Vladimir Voinovich, one of the great satirists of contemporary Russian literature, comes a new comic novel about the absurdity of politics and the place of

The year is 1982, just two years before that made famous by Orwell. An exiled Soviet writer discovers that a German travel agency is booking flights through a t

This study analyzes how public bereavement became cemented into the broad geography of Russian culture with the appearance of experiential and local memorials i

This book explores the scope of Moscow's "new thinking" in its Third World context—highlighted by the USSR's surprising withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. I