A Thousand Years of Russian Orthodoxy
Julie Richards-Williams examines the millennium of Christianity in Russia
Russia
Perestroika's Impact on Soviet History
Georgy Smirnov investigates the reforming policies in the USSR under Mikhail Gorbachev.
'Glasnost' and the Russian Revolution
Paul Dukes takes a look back on the Russian Revolution.
Klyuchevsky and the Course of Russian History
A historical pioneer of the 'longue durée' who found his own liberal vision of a European Russia clouded by the contradictions and pessimism of his own times.
May 1945: The Soviet View
John Erickson reflects on how the Russians commemorate their role in bringing peace to Europe.
The Soviet Union
Roger Pethybridge continues our series on the Post-War reconstruction of Europe.
Stalin’s Russia
Christopher Read explores the historiography of Russia under Joseph Stalin.
Nadezhda Durova: Russia's Cavalry Maid
Barbara Heldt reveals that the brave Russian Cossack, Aleksandrov, was in fact a woman, Nadezhda Durova, who had renounced her unhappy female self.
Reading History: The Russian Revolution
Edward Acton outlines the historiography of the Russian Revolution.
Siberian Exile in Tsarist Russia
The wastelands of Siberia provided Tsarist Russia with ‘a vast roofless prison’ for criminals and political prisoners banished into exile.