Abandoned photographs found on the front line of the Ukraine conflict reveal intimate moments of life before the war. Now the Australian photojournalist who discovered them hopes he can return the ...

Lyudmila Alexeyeva, one of the last former Soviet dissidents active in Russian politics, died on Saturday. She was ninety-one years old. Alexeyeva’s life can be divided into two unequal parts: her ...

In the late 1970s, three photographers -- Vladimir Vorobyov, Vladimir Sokolayev, and Aleksandr Trofimov -- got a job at the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Plant in the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. Their ...

Bill Aron, “Gates to Leningrad Synagogue” (1981) (image courtesy the artist) LOS ANGELES — In 1981, photographer Bill Aron flew to the Soviet Union to document the lives of Jews living under ...

A BRITISH newspaper correspondent, recently returned from eighteen months in Moscow, describes the Soviet Union as a tangle of paradoxes. “Whatever one’s prejudices about the Soviet regime and the ...

Reason's December special issue marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This story is part of our exploration of the global legacy of that evil empire, and our effort to be ...

A DRESSING ROOM, two makeup stations and two mirrors. A selection of wigs and dresses. A pair of actors—a man and a woman—enter and sit on stools, facing the audience. They speak in their normal ...

Some misunderstandings can be remedied by a simple explanation. Others end friendships or marriages. The most frightening miscommunications are those between nuclear-armed superpowers. In October, ...