In a chapter he has written for an upcoming book about conceptions of time in the Soviet Union, Johnson explores the propaganda posters produced at the time. (The chapter title is “Last Stop: ...

It was movie night at the Kremlin. The date was May 23, 1943. The Red Army had defeated the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad only three months earlier. For the first time, it looked like the ...

Russia's war against Ukraine is waged not only with missiles and tanks, but with distorted myths — powerful narratives that ...

“The Bolsheviks outlawed this kind of antisemitic propaganda. The Soviet Union for many decades presented itself as standing at the forefront of the fight against antisemitism.” Neverthele ...

Recently, Molchanova talked about the Russian government’s propaganda efforts and how some borrow symbols and terminology from the former Soviet Union, especially those relating to War II narratives.

said that Fox News is being used as a propaganda tool by the right in a similar way that the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union used Pravda, a Russian newspaper, to promote its agenda.

What similarities do you see between the messaging put forth by Putin and Russia today compared to Soviet Union propaganda? The messaging about Victory Day and it's significance is largely a Putin ...

we think that Putin’s popularity and the widespread impact of his propaganda are not accidental. Putin gives Russians what they have been missing since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 – a ...

The police expected to find that the Russians had forged the documents or bribed municipal officials to create them and slip ...