The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...

In recent months, journalists covering the brutal war in Ukraine have reported Russia’s deliberate destruction of cultural sites, apart from the collateral damage caused by combat. Beginning with the ...

When Russian tanks rolled into the town of Vovchansk in north-east Ukraine in February 2022, some of the locals knew what they needed to do first: save the books. Vyacheslav Borodavka, once a ...

KYIV -- Halfway through the annual Book Arsenal Festival, Ukraine's biggest publishing event, Anastasia Yehorova had already bought 11 books. Among them: Zero Point, a novel by soldier Artem Chekh; ...

For the past 20 years, writer Dmitry Glukhovsky has observed Vladimir Putin's Russia from extremes of proximity and distance.

Moscow-born journalist Julia Ioffe examines the women of her country over the past century ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a communist state from 1922 to 1991 and was a big rival of the US from ...

In a remote region of western Ukraine, far from where the violent conflict of war with Russia is taking place and destroying human lives, Ukrainians are fighting a different type of battle: for ...