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Michael Scammell is the author of biographies of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Arthur Koestler, and has translated many books from Russian. He is now working on a memoir. (April 2016)
The Bad Boy of Russian Poetry
Mayakovsky: A Biography
by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated from the Swedish by Harry D. Watson
September 24, 2015 issue
The CIA’s ‘Zhivago’
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée
Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak’s Masterpiece
by Paolo Mancosu
July 10, 2014 issue
The Russian Nobility Under the Red Terror
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
by Douglas Smith
March 7, 2013 issue
Love Against All Odds
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
by Orlando Figes
June 21, 2012 issue
The Master Returns—or Does He?
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn
December 8, 2011 issue
Circles of Hell
Voices from the Gulag
edited by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translated from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz
Gulag Voices: An Anthology
edited by Anne Applebaum
The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
by Stephen F. Cohen
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, translated from the Russian and edited by Deborah Kaple
April 28, 2011 issue
Writers in a Cage
Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
by Vladislav Zubok
January 14, 2010 issue
The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg
The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West
by Sean McMeekin
Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus
November 3, 2005 issue
The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:A Century in His Life
by D.M. Thomas
December 3, 1998 issue
Loyal Toward Reality
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Mysticism for Beginners
by Adam Zagajewski
Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
by Adam Zagajewski
Winter Dialogue
by Tomas Venclova, translated by Diana Senechal
September 24, 1998 issue
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