White's highly readable biography portrays the life of Mikhail Pokrovskii, a Marxist historian, prominent early-­​twentieth-century Russian revolutionary, and close comrade of Lenin and Trotsky.

On Dec. 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR, officially came into existence, as leaders gathered in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to sign the Treaty on the Creation of the ...

Political and ideological barriers can shape the progress of academic disciplines, warns Ivan Boldyrev. In a new paper, the historian of economics at Radboud University explores the complex history of ...