This book addresses the complex intersection of secret police operations and the formation of the religious underground in communist-era Eastern Europe. It disc

In a series of richly illustrated short essays, Hidden Galleries presents the ways in which the secret police of the communist-era and before collected and cura

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took o

This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of a

Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society in communist USSR has been d