A wave of outrage swept through the media after a film was released showing Russian military police forcing wounded soldiers to return to the front through beatings. For Russians, such behavior is not ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian phrase has haunted me. It translates to “They [Ukrainians] ...

In a word, visualize the component human elements of the far-flung empire of the Tsars and you ... she was vaguely distrusted by the Russian people as a foreigner and a Germanophile.

A wave of outrage swept through the media after a film was released showing Russian military police forcing wounded soldiers ...

Ultimately nearly two million people emigrated ... the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in Russia ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the all-powerful Tsar Nicholas II -- one man, answerable only to God, who rules more than 170 million people. The Tsar's armies have grown ...

Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

We have preserved our people. …” The claim is false ... sought global leadership. The Russian Empire implemented some military reforms during the decade that predated the WWI.

From 1741 until Alaska was sold to the United States in 1867, the Russian empire claimed territory and peoples in North America. In this book, Ilya Vinkovetsky examines how Russia governed its only ...