Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in the 1930s, Sergei Loznitsa’s film follows a naive young lawyer as he attempts to navigate ...
The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" and the leadership of the Red Army. This was done through three show trials ...
The scale of Secretary General Xi Jinping’s military purges is shocking. More than 100 senior leaders have been removed since ...
He says he wrote A Kingdom and a Village ‘out of nostalgia for pre-oligarch decrepitude, when the world looked at Moscow with ...
They are called Svan Towers. Stark stone towers built to keep warmth in and invaders out. Located high in the remote valleys of the Upper Caucasus mountain range they were meant to be the highlight, ...
A more complex and less widely understood dynamic is that of “projective identification,” in which the accuser places the other in a position (unconsciously) designed to elicit responses that confirm ...
Ryan Gosling goes from science teacher to astronaut in ‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘Peaky Blinders’ gets a feature-film followup on ...
The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy, and now the war of choice against Iran, are sharpening an older divide between ...
The widening fissures inside the Republican Party over Trump’s broader unilateralism and chaotic foreign policy, and now the war of choice against Iran, are sharpening an older divide between ...
No, not next Saturday at Knockdown Center—it’s “The Wild Party,” Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s musicalization ...