Uplifting, avant-garde children’s book illustrations from the USSR
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Our 10 favourite books of 2019 will change how you see the world
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        These 5 books lay bare what life was really like when communism fell in Eastern Europe
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        A digital archive is recovering half a century of communist Romania’s eclectic visual culture
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk flies high with Nobel Prize win
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Pussy Riot’s Tolokonnikova to release book on activism
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Book of diaries from the Leningrad Siege wins 2018 Pushkin House prize
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Best of 2017: our pick of the top movies, literature and music this year
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Solzhenitsyn’s “life’s mission” on the Revolution to be released in English
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Remembering Croatia’s oldest bookstore
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Balkan literature: the best contemporary fiction to add to your reading list
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Check out Lake Baikal’s 200-tonne Ice Library of Wonders
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Calvert 22 to host the launch of Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        A new childhood: Soviet picture books in UK first
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                        
	
                    
                    
                        Shelf life: 29 beautiful photo books from the new east
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Great expectations: Russia’s best new independent bookshops
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Second life: a new chapter for Moscow’s revamped libraries
                     
                 
            
         
     
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
    
        
            
                    
                    
                        Iconic Alvar Aalto library opens after two-year revamp