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Aileen Kelly is a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her books include Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance.
Getting Isaiah Berlin Wrong
Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal
by Arie M. Dubnov
June 20, 2013 issue
Why They Believed in Stalin
Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin
by Jochen Hellbeck
April 26, 2007 issue
A Great Russian Prophet
The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory
by Anna Akhmatova,translated from the Russian, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary and Nancy K. Anderson
November 3, 2005 issue
The Two Dostoevskys
Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881
by Joseph Frank
March 27, 2003 issue
In the Promised Land
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
by Jeffrey Brooks
Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents
by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov
November 29, 2001 issue
The Secret Sharer
Things That Happened
by Volume 19. Glas New Russian Writing and Boris Slutsky, edited, translated, and with an introduction and commentaries by G.S. Smith
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by Sheila Fitzpatrick
March 9, 2000 issue
The Russian Sphinx
Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum
by Martin Malia
May 20, 1999 issue
The Sphinx of Russia
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village
by Serge Schmemann
October 8, 1998 issue
Chekhov the Subversive
Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary
Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. with Simon Karlinsky, introduction and commentary by Simon Karlinsky
Chekhov's Plays: An Opening into Eternity
by Richard Gilman
Anton Chekhov: A Life
by Donald Rayfield
November 6, 1997 issue
‘Where the Dead Smiled’
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis
February 20, 1997 issue
Revealing Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson
September 24, 1992 issue
Brave New Worlds
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution
by Richard Stites
Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy
by Zenovia A. Sochor
December 6, 1990 issue
Leonard Schapiro’s Russia
Russian Studies
by Leonard Schapiro, edited by Ellen Dahrendorf, introduction by Harry Willetts
September 24, 1987 issue
Man in the Middle
Who Is to Blame?
by Alexander Herzen, translated by Michael R. Katz
December 19, 1985 issue
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