
Soviet Union


Gendering dissent
Human rights, gender history and the road to 1989

Dissidence – doubt – creativity
Revisiting 1983

Just because the map says so, doesn’t mean it’s true
Thirty years after 1989, from an island perspective

Hammer, sickle, crucifix?
Why 20th-century communists couldn’t decide if they wanted to befriend the religious or blow up their churches


Stalin’s continuing, disputed legacy
Surveying Russia’s geography of difficult pasts

Uncertain territory
The strange life and curious sustainability of de facto states

The drama of independence
Eimuntas Nekrošius and Lithuania’s Youth Theatre

Only love can save those who are infected with anger
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich speaks to director Staffan Julén about love, reality and writing

Defragmenting omnipresence
The struggle to preserve Soviet standard housing

From private to state slavery and back again
Slavery and the camp systems in the 19th and 20th centuries


Taking responsibility
Soviet crimes and Russian democracy
