In The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, Harvard University professor Serhii Plokhy provides a definitive account of the history leading up to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Luckily, Russia’s body of literature is vast, with plenty of books for the new moment. One of my favorites is Moscow to the End of the Line, by Venedikt Erofeev.

The publication of a book on Lithuanian history signals Russia’s intent to subvert Lithuania’s sovereignty and identity.

While books were also covered under the propaganda law’s expansion in 2022, the esteem Russians hold for literature and the fraught history of censorship under Soviet rule meant officials were ...

Masha thought she’d be giving the Russian press grist for the mill. The book was published in Germany, Austria and Japan, various countries. I wrote it in English and it was translated.

In his 1898 book War in the History of the Russian World, Nikolai Sukhotin, the director of the Russian General Staff Academy, calculated that Russia had spent 353 of the past 525 years—two-thirds of ...

Publishing houses duly began to take out entire chapters from books on the history of Russia in the 20th century (this, for example, happened to the book “Unmodern Country” by Vladislav Inozemtsev — ...

According to the state-run Ukrainian Book Institute, Russia has ruined 154 libraries in Ukraine, damaged over 750 more, and destroyed more than 1.8 million books.

"So Russian history books are more accurate than ours. That's interesting," one X user replied, while another added: "Probably how it's written in all of Europe." ...

Having grown up with Russian history books that peddle a patriotic narrative, researching my novel taught me there were a lot of darker sides to Soviet history that had been hidden away.