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How Russia Is Ruled

Boris Yel'tsin: Ot Rassveta do Zakata (Boris Yeltsin: From Dawn to Dusk)

by Aleksandr Korzhakov

The Russian Intelligentsia

by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Lynn Visson

April 9, 1998 issue

On Murray Kempton (1917–1997)

June 12, 1997 issue

Laughter in the Dark

At His Side: The Last Years of Isaac Babel

by A.N. Pirozhkova

April 10, 1997 issue

Hammer, Sickle, and Book

Za Gorizontom (Beyond the Horizon)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Veru v Rossiyu (I Believe in Russia)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Rossiya i Sovremenii Mir (Russia and the Modern World)

by Gennady Zyuganov

Preobrazheniye (Transformation)

by Andrei Kozyrev

May 23, 1996 issue

Notes From Underground

The Ransom of Russian Art

by John McPhee

March 2, 1995 issue

Getting Russia Right

The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991

by Martin Malia

September 22, 1994 issue

Le Carré’s New War

The Night Manager

by John le Carré

August 12, 1993 issue

The Counterrevolutionary

Sto Sorok Besed s Molotovym (One Hundred Forty Talks with Molotov)

by Feliks Chuyev

Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev

by Yegor Ligachev, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick and Michele A. Berdy and Dobrochna Dyrcz-Freeman

March 25, 1993 issue

Invitation to a Beheading

Stalin: Triumph & Tragedy

by Dmitri Volkogonov, edited and translated by Harold Shukman

November 5, 1992 issue

Dons of the Don

The Soviet Mafia

by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by John Roberts, translated by Elizabeth Roberts

July 16, 1992 issue

Defending the Faith

Reflections on Russia

by Dmitri S. Likhachev, edited by Nicolai N. Petro, translated by Christina Sever

Zametki i Nabludeniya: Iz Zapisnikh knizhek razhnikh lyet (Notes and Observations: From Notebooks Over the Years)

by Dmitri S. Likhachev

Bibliographia: Dmitri Sergeyevich Likhachev

edited by V. P. Adrionovi-Perets and M.A. Salminoi et al.

Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev

edited by Helena Goscilo, edited by Byron Lindsey

Stikhi iz Tyurmi (Poems From Prison)

by Anatoly Lukyanov

Sleepwalker in a Fog

by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell

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May 14, 1992 issue

Dead Souls

Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre

by Allen Paul

The August Coup: The Truth and the Lessons

by Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev

by Gerd Ruge, translated by Peter Tegel

Memoirs: The Gorbachev Enigma

by Yegor Ligachev

The Future Belongs to Freedom

by Eduard Shevardnadze, translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick

I Hope

by Raisa Gorbachev, translated by David Floyd

Raisa: The 1st First Lady of the Soviet Union

by Urda Jürgens

The Second Russian Revolution Discovery Channel by Brian Lapping Associates

a six-part documentary series made for BBC Television and the, produced by Norman Percy

The Second Russian Revolution: The Struggle for Power in the Kremlin

by Angus Roxburgh

Nizabvayemoe (Unforgettable)

by Anna Larina Bukharina

For a New Russia

by Anatoly Sobchak

Zal Ozhidaniya (The Waiting Room)

by Vitaly Korotich

Khrushchev on Khrushchev: An Inside Account of the Man and His Era

by Sergei Khrushchev, edited and translated by William Taubman

Khrushchev Remembers: The Glasnost Tapes

dictated by Nikita Khrushchev, foreword by Strobe Talbott, translated and edited by Jerrold L. Schecter and Vyacheslav V. Luchkov

Moscow Circles

by Benedict Erofeev, translated by J. R. Dorrell

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December 19, 1991 issue

Chaplygin Street Blues

In a country as vast and varied as Russia, television is an unequaled means of information, unification, enculturation. It should be no surprise that a regime in collapse will try to keep its grip on television.

April 25, 1991 issue

Native Son

'Kak nam obustroit' Rossiya?' ('How Shall We Organize Russia?') 1990, and Literaturnaya Gazeta, September 19, 1990.

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

February 14, 1991 issue

The Struggle for Light

Memoirs

by Andrei Sakharov, translated by Richard Lourie

Gorki, Moskva, Dalye Vezde (Gorky, Moscow, and Beyond)

by Andrei Sakharov

Trevoga i Nadezhda (Alarm and Hope)

by Andrei Sakharov

August 16, 1990 issue

The Communist Party Cut-Up

Against the Grain: An Autobiography

by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Michael Glenny

May 17, 1990 issue