A young Chrystia Freeland impressed Soviet Russia’s KGB
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Soviet Union
Russia is a mess, but it’s still playing the West
Scott Gilmore: It’s economy is smaller than Canada’s and its military is nothing next to the U.S., yet it’s winning at one thing: upending the world order
How Stalin starved four million Ukrainians to death
Author Anne Applebaum, an expert on Russia and Eastern Europe, says Russia still denies that Holodomor ever happened
The torture and sadness of Russia’s most famous conjoined twins
Juliet Butler on the suffering and resilience of Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova, two mismatched souls bound up in the same body
A dream-like critique of post-Soviet Russia
Sergei Lebedev’s debut novel deploys surrealism and poetry as he ventures into the Gulag, seeking answers
Correcting a simplistic view of the Soviets
The Maisky Diaries provides a rare glimpse into Stalin’s Soviet Union
The sad, strange life of Joseph Stalin’s daughter
Svetlana Alliluyeva spent a lifetime trying to escape the shadow of her father. Patricia Treble speaks to her biographer, Rosemary Sullivan
Separatism is rising in other eastern European states
Ukraine isn’t the only place Russia has its eye on. Soviet nostalgia is gripping Europe’s ‘de facto states.’
Winning the new Cold War
Russia’s power is re-emerging everywhere
Julia Child by way of Stalin
’Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking’ requires mayonnaise. Lots of it.