Viktor Erofeyev

Viktor Erofeyev is the author of Russian Beauty, a novel, and the editor of The Penguin Book of New Russian Writing. He lives in Moscow. (March 2001)

The Possessed

“If you awaken the Rasputin in yourself, life suddenly overflows its banks: you begin to experience a fierce, incomparable joy from being in a state of outrageousness, dissipation, restlessness, suffering, and desecration. ‘Violence is the soul’s joy,’ Rasputin taught.”

The Rasputin File

Edvard Radzinsky, translated by Judson Rosengrant

March 29, 2001 issue

A Scandal in Moscow

September 21, 2000 issue

An Appeal for Democracy in the Baltic Republics

March 28, 1991 issue

Neither Salvation nor Sausage

Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (Russia in 1839)

by the Marquis de Custine, foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin, introduction by George F. Kennan

June 14, 1990 issue