Since the mid-1990s, Russian authorities have insisted on particular understandings of some parts of the country’s history as a matter of national security.

Why being eaten by a crocodile named Little Karl is really a lesson in the dangers of foreign capital.

Traditionally set amidst an exoticized conception of India, La Bayadère’s recent staging argues for stripping away stereotypes in the creative reimagination of old ballets.

Anti-Western and pro-expansionist, Eurasianists believed every country had a right to its own existence...as part of the Russian civilization.

One of the best-known illustrators of the “golden age of children’s gift books,” Dulac was also a subtle purveyor of Allied propaganda during the Great War.

Free from Russian dictates over language usage and education, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan prepare to embrace Latin lettering. It’s the latest chapter in the region’s fraught history of alphabet reform.

This all-girls boarding school in England produced a generation of accomplished female writers in the eighteenth century.

Neither supernatural forces nor Soviet censors were able to suppress individual creativity and determination.

While fact-checking his critically acclaimed novel about an enigmatic soprano of the Paris Opera , Chee happened upon a piece of information on JSTOR he could not ignore.