What are the Vory? A history of Russia’s super mafia from its Stalin era heydays to the late Soviet period.

How do we explain the influx of Western Culture to the Soviet Union? What is Soviet emigre culture?

What makes the year 1983 so gripping and terrifying? How do we remember fear? What can contemporary leaders learn from the past?

What is new in this book about Chernobyl? What were the origins of Chernobyl and what was Gorbachev’s role in the tragedy.

How does success affect an author? The importance of translation and memories of Chernobyl.

The secrets of gay Soviet slang

Escaping into Bulgakov’s imaginary parallel universe.

Helen Rappaport on her latest book about the Romanovs.

From oligarchs to bourgeoisie in Putin's Russia.

How the Soviet Union secretly mapped the world.