Books & arts
22 October 2025
A prize-winning account of Soviet-era human rights activists throws light on Putin’s Russia
Books & arts
12 August 2025
Zbigniew Brzezinski came to resist the great-power thinking that would later play out so tragically in Ukraine
Books & arts
21 January 2025
Ismail Kadare’s final novel sums up a career shaped by tyranny
Other Voices
13 September 2024
Myths about the collapse of the Soviet Union are encouraging mistaken policies towards China
Books & arts
12 September 2024
A fine-grained and often funny new history of the Soviet cold war reveals an imperial power promoting itself as a friend of the global liberation struggle
International
27 April 2024
March’s terrorist attack in Moscow highlights Russia’s often-fraught dealings with Muslim peoples and states
Essays & reportage
8 February 2024
Communist or not, postwar refugees from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe attracted the attention of Australia’s security services
International
19 September 2022
The war in Ukraine is part of a long-simmering conflict across post-Soviet Europe and Asia
Essays & reportage
31 October 2013
Uzbekistan is still writing and rewriting its own history, reports a recently returned R.J.B. Bosworth
Essays & reportage
27 September 2013
Within months of the end of the second world war, an iron curtain had fallen across Europe. Its impact reached into the inner suburbs of Melbourne, writes Geoffrey Barker
From the archive
8 February 2012
Tormented by self-doubt, regretting missed opportunities, George Kennan helped shape the postwar world
Essays & reportage
7 May 2010
In this extract from her new book, Maria Tumarkin recounts the events that unfolded after news of war reached the Ukrainian village of Dubovyazovka