NOT BY BREAD ALONE (512 pp.)—Vladimir Dudintsev—Dutton ($4.95). No less a literary critic than Nikita S. Khrushchev has called this book “wrong at the root” and misrepresenting life “as through a ...

Composed for a 1932 Soviet movie about industrial quotas, the song was repurposed as leftist French anthem and as a wartime morale-booster ...

A s Olga Grushin notes at the end of "The Line," her second novel is rooted in historical fact: "In 1962, the celebrated Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky accepted a Soviet invitation to ...

Thousands of Buryats, a distinctive ethnic minority in Russia, fled tsarist conscription during World War I as well as the Soviet repressions that followed to form their own microcosm of Buryat ...

With artists from 23 countries, hopes for a billion-plus viewers and a generous sprinkle of glitter, Russia will host ...

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, ...

Karl Berngardovich Radek, the greatest journalist in Soviet Russia, repeatedly in recent years the spokesman of Joseph Stalin, and in recent months so potent that Moscow correspondents were calling ...