
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Libuše Jarcovjáková, a young female photographe...

Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living ...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of ...

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...