Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War,” her first book, was published in the Soviet Union in 1985. It chronicles the everyday lives, emotions and thoughts of more than 500 women who served ...

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

Throughout the former Soviet Union, almost unlimited public money was spent on mosaics to try and liven up the gray, boxy suburbs of the communist world, like this 1975 work, titled Environmental ...

The Voice of Women was joined by other voices around ... In October 1962, Cold War tensions peaked when the Soviet Union secretly introduced offensive missiles into Cuba aimed directly at North ...