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

Sophie Pinkham’s “The Oak and the Larch” is an inventive study of Russia’s cultural practices and its reigning mythologies ...

When diving into the history of the Soviet Union and modern Russia, one expects to encounter the towering figures of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Putin. But in “Motherland,” ...

To read Julia Ioffe’s new book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy” is to take a rambling ride — or a crash course if this is new territory — through the ...

Telling the story of a country through its women is an epic undertaking — especially when the country’s history includes totalitarianism, extreme violence and repression. It’s a task taken on by the ...

On a steamy August afternoon in Washington, D.C., the National Guard was on its way and Julia Ioffe arrived for lunch at a strip mall in the suburbs. Ioffe, 43, a Russian American journalist, said the ...

IT WAS A wintry night in St Petersburg and revolution was in the air. A piercing wind whipped off the frozen Neva river as, before dawn, the conspirators hurried to Senate Square, close to the Winter ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...

Russian museum websites and online collections have portrayed Ukraine, its history, and culture as inseparable from Russia. Credit: University of Exeter Russian museum websites and online collections ...