In the Khrushchev era, Soviet citizens were newly encouraged to imagine themselves
exploring the medieval towers of Tallinn's Old Town, relaxing on the Romanian Black Sea …

The'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its
establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a …

Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between
1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It addresses two of the key recent debates concerning …

Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal
investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic …

American–Soviet Cultural Diplomacy: The Bolshoi Ballet's American Premiere is the first full-
length examination of a Soviet cultural diplomatic effort. Following the signing of an …

As an act of unbridled individualism, suicide confronted the Bolshevik regime with a
dilemma that challenged both its theory and its practice and helped give rise to a social …

The article analyses a new and increasingly significant direction in historical research on
twentieth century Russia and the Soviet Union which is concerned to engage critically with …

After October 1917, communism was embodied in an International that was organised by
and centred on Moscow. This was known as the Third International, the Communist …

In the early morning hours of 17 August 1922, Soviet security operatives fanned across
Moscow and Petrograd on orders from the Politburo, jarring hundreds of intellectuals and …

One well-entrenched way of looking at the cultural and intellectual relations between Russia
and the West is to see them as a one-way street along which Western ideas and influences …