At a meeting in Soviet Russia's Krasnoyarsk territory in 1930, residents of Solona Village listened to state functionaries espousing what they claimed were the advantages of collective farms. No one ...

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 ...

Four years before the revolt that overturned Russia’s political order, the painter Mikhail Larionov called for likeminded Muscovites to spurn convention and affect what we might today call “hipster ...

In a very peculiar coincidence, for two days in a row I found, on the front page of American papers, articles dealing with Russian history and culture. It is no surprise that today's newspapers paid ...

Some 200,000 Jewish refugees came to Germany after the fall of the USSR, and brought cultural traditions — like partying hard during Christmas. Thirty-three years ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, ...