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Laura Guillaume reviews ‘Pushkin Hills’ by Sergei Dovlatov

24 September 2026 by Laura Guillaume Sergei Dovlatov, Pushkin Hills, translated by Katherine Dovlatov, Alma Classics, London, 2013, 160pp, ISBN: 9781847492210, Paperback £7.19.2013] Referring to an author as ‘underappreciated’ or…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘American Overthrow’ by Keir Giles

18 September 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Keir Giles, American Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in its Long War with Washington, Hurst Publishers, London, September 2026, 384pp,  ISBN 9781805266716 Hardback £18.99 WHO is the…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Stalin’s Apostles’ by Antonia Senior

16 September 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Stalin’s Apostles. The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 496pp, 9 April 2026, Hardback, ISBN:…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology’ by Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev

29 August 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Ilya Budraitskis, Ilya Matveev, Russia’s New Imperialism: Capital and Ideology,  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. 2026. xii + 228 pp. £19.99. Paperback ISBN: 9781503647732 It’s now 35…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest’ by Luke Harding

16 August 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Luke Harding, Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest, Guardian Faber, London, 2026, vi + 354 pp., £20. ISBN 978-1-78335-337-8. Goodness! Harding’s…

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Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and The Making of New Russia’ by Robert Service

11 June 2026 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews The August Coup: The Destruction of the Soviet Union and The Making of New Russia, 1985-1991 by Robert Service, Picador, London,…

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Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Disappearing Act’ by Maria Stepanova

12 June 2026 by Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale, Fitzcarraldo Editions,  136pp, 26 February 2026, ISBN: 978-1804272329, £12.99 I remember, with nostalgia now,…

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‘An Elon Musk-Supported Apology of Russia’s War on Ukraine’ – a public statement [in English and Russian]

28 April 2026 A collective warning to readers of The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War (Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2026). Source: Ukrainska Pravda [for…

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Leonid Nikitinsky reviews Tamara Morshchakova’s memoir about the Constitution

17 February 2026 By Leonid Nikitinsky Professor Tamara Morshchakova has presented a book about her work at the Constitutional Court Source: Novaya gazeta Leonid Nikitinsky reviews Sud'ya vne zavisimosti [Судья…

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