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…
It is not very often that a historian writes a book to counter the “myths” created by a novelist. Dominic…
I enjoy reading the memoirs and biographies of government leaders, especially of American Presidents and Secretaries of State. With my…
David McCullough is one of my favorite historians and I think I have read most of his books, especially his…
The term “Russian diaspora” refers to the global community of ethnic Russians. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in…