From all indications, the trip to the USSR was going to be a great experience. Our delegation of fourteen faculty…
My last two “Reflections on Russia” discussed the insights in Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from…
My last “Reflections on Russia” discussed the insights in Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the…
Paul Froese’s book, The Plot to Kill God: Findings from the Soviet Experiment in Secularization (University of California Press, 2008),…
I recently discovered a new author – that is, an author who is new to me, but who has been…
At the peak of his career, having published three powerful novels in the 1930s – especially one of his best-known…
Professor David S. Foglesong from Rutgers University has written a fascinating book, The American Mission and the “Evil Empire”: The…
One of the casualties of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was the culture of giving, of charity, that had developed…
Andrew Nagorski’s book, The Greatest Battle, is a fascinating study of how an epic World War Two struggle can get…
In a speech to the Russian Duma (Parliament) on May 10, 2006, then-President Putin called the problem of Russia’s dramatic…