In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Journalist Julia Ioffe sheds new light on Russia's feminist history in her new book "Motherland." A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the ...

Detained in a penal colony in Mordovia, the 70-year-old historian, who specializes in the Stalin regime's crimes, is one of Russia's oldest political prisoners. His crime? Refusing to accept ...