Ihor Kalynets was a native of the western Lviv region and won the country’s most prestigious literary prize for his poetry, while also writing prose and stories for children. A Ukrainian poet who was ...

The Russian government ordered Memorial shut down in December 2021 and forced its closure earlier this year. “The historians at Memorial, some of whom were activists in the dissident period, were not ...

There is: the dissidents who challenged Communist rule in the Soviet Union. This may sound strange, since today’s authoritarians tend to be of the right rather than the left.

Historian Benjamin Nathans joins The Naked Pravda to discuss his new book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement (Princeton University Press, August ...