Arch Tait reviews ‘The Russia Conundrum’ by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
14 March 2023 by Arch Tait Arch Tait reviews The Russia Conundrum. How the West Fell for Putin’s Power Gambit and How to Fix It, by Mikhail Khodorkovsky with Martin…
Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Kilometer 101’ by Maxim Osipov
9 March 2023 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov, edited by Boris Dralyuk, translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, Nicolas Pasternak Slater, and Alex Fleming. Paperback 296pp ISBN-9781681376868 (New York Review…
Arch Tait reviews ‘How Do You Slay a Dragon?’ by Mikhail Khodorkovsky
4 January 2023 by Arch Tait Arch Tait reviews How Do You Slay a Dragon? by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, translated by Stephen Dalziel, Moscow–Chita–Krasnokamensk–London–Moscow, 2003–2023. Online only; available at dragonbook.khodorkovsky.com Mikhail Khodorkovksy. Photo:…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘Killer in the Kremlin’ by John Sweeney
1 January 2023 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews John Sweeney, Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin’s Reign of Terror, Bantam Press, Transworld Publishers, London, 2022, viii +…
Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Living Pictures’ by Polina Barskova
8 December 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Living Pictures by Polina Barskova, translated from the Russian by Catherine Ciepiela and with an introduction by Eugene Ostashevsky. Paperback 224pp ISBN-9781782277606 (Pushkin Press,…
Nikolay Epplée on ‘The Question of German Guilt’ by Karl Jaspers
1 November 2022 by Nikolay Epplée Nikolay Epplée is an independent researcher working on international memorial culture and on memory of Soviet state terror and the author of The Inconvenient Past:…
Martin Dewhirst reviews ‘The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World’ by Iuliia Mendel
11 November 2022 by Martin Dewhirst Martin Dewhirst reviews Iuliia Mendel, The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the…
Arch Tait reviews ‘Weak Strongman: the Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia’ by Timothy Frye
28 October 2022 by Arch Tait Arch Tait reviews Weak Strongman: the Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia by Timothy Frye, Princeton University Press, Princeton, Oxford. Hardback, 2021. 271 pages. £17.53.…
Sara Jolly reviews ‘China and Russia: the new rapprochement’ by Alexander Lukin
13 September 2022 by Sara Jolly Sara Jolly reviews China and Russia: The New Rapprochement by Alexander Lukin, Polity, Cambridge, Oxford, Boston, New York. Paperback 2018. pp272. £16.99 ISBN 9781509521715. The cover of…
Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘Free: Coming of Age at the End of History’ by Lea Ypi
30 August 2022 By Teresa Cherfas Teresa Cherfas reviews Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi. Paperback 336pp ISBN-9780141995106 (Allen Lane, London, 2022) Lea Ypi is a professor…