July 01, 2015 Stalin, Mythology and Faberge Reviews of "Stalin: A New Biography of a Dictator," by Oleg Khlevniuk; "The Great Glass Sea", by Josh Weil; and the documentary "Faberge: A Life of its Own."
July 01, 2015 The Joy of Soviet Cooking Anna Kharzeeva is learning to cook, Soviet style, from her grandmother. We listen in, and get a fresh new recipe for summer shchi (soup).
July 01, 2015 The Enchantment of Kimzha William Brumfield has been tromping all over the Russian North for three decades, documenting soon-to-be-lost architecture and villages. He takes us to tiny Kimzha. Regions
July 01, 2015 Crime & Punishment This summer, why not read one of the classics? As a teaser, we offer an excerpt from Dostoyevsky’s timeless classic, in a new translation by Oliver Ready.
July 01, 2015 Trotsky's End Seventy-five years ago this August, Leon Trotsky was brutally murdered while living in exile in Mexico. Levi Bridges visited the scene of the crime, now a veritable shrine to the Bolshevik leader. History
July 01, 2015 Vladivostok On the anniversary of its "birth" we look back at the history of the "ruler of the East"... Regions
July 01, 2015 Yaroslav the Wise The rise of Yaroslav the Wise as ruler of Kiev. It may not be all we think it was. History
July 01, 2015 Between Two Worlds During the tsarist era, Russians’ perceptions of themselves were powerfully shaped by travelogues about the world that lay beyond the empire’s borders. History
July 01, 2015 Weaponizing History History is being increasingly politicized. Case in point, a recent documentary about the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
July 01, 2015 Wild Pitch It is not an easy task to sell the very American sport of baseball in a time of state-sanctioned anti-Americanism. But that doesn’t stop the Gladikovs. Sports
July 01, 2015 Baby It's Cold Outside When i first arrived in Moscow, I couldn’t say much in Russian, but I could talk about the weather.
