An examination of the experiences of the survivors of Joseph Stalin's Gulag that draws on interviews with victims to describe the challenges they faced after returning home and the political conflict that was caused by their imprisonment.
Chronicles Russia's history from the beginnings of Kievan Rus in the ninth century to Vladimir Putin's reforms of the early twenty-first century, and features a critical reassessment of the Stalinist era.
Examines the land, people, and history of the Russian Federation, discusses the country's state of affairs and place in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
