Sophie Pinkham

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Lea Ypi’s memoir recounts Albania’s troubled transition to democracy.

Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.

Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?

Why have post-Soviet countries embraced populism and nostalgia?

Why is Armando Iannucci’s new film effectively banned in Russia?

Putin’s foreign policy is rooted in an epic myth of betrayal and redemption.

St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.

Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.

The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives