How did Russia come to be the kind of nation that it is? What are the roots of its particular identity? Gregory Carleton and Serhii Plokhy take on these questions, and both turn to similar events in ...

History is generally chronicled from the rather parochial perspective of human beings. We are the ones recording it, and in keeping with our species’ characteristic narcissism, we tend to emphasize ...

When Rancho Santa Fe native Griffin Edwards was a high schooler, a trip to Russia changed his life. “I did not know anything about Russia. It was so different than what I grew up with,” said Edwards, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It) In this animated video, historian Matt Lewis tells the story ...

An extensive four-volume work by historian and legal scholar Giovanni Codevilla has filled a serious gap in historical research on the Eastern Slavic world. The work, whose title may be translated as ...

A new school textbook in Russia is teaching children that Moscow was “forced” to invade Ukraine as it likens the conflict to the Soviet Union’s battle against Nazi Germany in World War II. The ...

A new book written by Russian-American writer Julia Ioffe confronts the forgotten narratives of the women who stood alongside some of Russia’s most well-known male leaders. Ioffe joins Michel Martin ...