10 August 2020 By John Anderson John Anderson reviews David G. Lewis, Russia’s New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Earlier this summer, the…
7 July 2020 by Sarah Hurst Sarah Hurst reviews Life Went On Anyway, by Oleg Sentsov, translated by Uilleam Blacker, Deep Vellum, 2019. ISBN 9781941920879 This slim collection of autobiographical…
19 June 2020 By Nadezhda Azhgikhina Nadezhda Azhgikhina reviews the Russian-language publication: Boris Altshuler, Leonoid Litinsky (eds.), Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, and friends: Life was typical, tragic, and beautiful, AST,…
30 June 2020 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Luke Harding, Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West, London, Guardian Faber, 2020. £14.99p. ISBN 978-1-783-35205-0. In his…
15 June 2020 By Margot Light Margot Light reviews The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990, by Peter Reddaway. Brookings, 337 pp., £25.50, 2020, Hardcover ISBN: 9780815737735;…
16 May 2020 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Anna Artem'eva, Yelena Racheva, 58-ya. Ne''izyatoye: Istorii lyudey, kotorye perezhili to, chego my bol'she vsego boimsya. (The 58th. Still Relevant: Stories…
14 January 2020 By Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Irina Flige, Sandormokh: dramaturgiya smyslov (possible English translation: Sandarmokh: A Labyrinth of Meanings). St. Petersburg, 'Nestor-Istoriya', 2019, 208 pp., 1,000 copies. Far…