I know the author of the book under review, Mark Edele, personally. “The whole story” is an unexpected subtitle for a book by a historian. We have long been alert to the fact that, faced with the ...

During his much-publicized recent interview with American right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined his perception of Russian history as the second anniversary ...

Last month, I stood at the corner of what used to be Pushkin Street in Kyiv. Following Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has been renamed Yevhen Chykalenko Street, after a ...

What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims Lorenzo A. Castro’s painting of the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. Credit: U.K. National Maritime Museum Diplomat author Mercy ...

In May 2016, Vladimir Putin announced that he was seizing personal control of the Russian State Archive (RosArkhiv), formally known as the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation. He removed ...

The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when President Ronald Reagan, on March 8, 1983, warned against “the ...

The first and only time I visited Ukraine was in 2019. My book “The Possessed”—a memoir I had published in 2010, about studying Russian literature—had recently been translated into Russian, along with ...

History loves unintended consequences. The latest example is particularly ironic: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt to restore the Russian empire by recolonizing Ukraine has opened the door ...

In August, 2022, six months after Russian troops invaded Ukraine, a cultural festival named Traditions was held outside Moscow, at the onetime summer retreat of Alexander Pushkin. The star speaker was ...

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