Tag: Russia

27 April, 2011

Tom Cutterham

The Meaning of Russia

The layered dust of history


1 June, 2009

Review of Reviews

More Ruth Padel. The many wonders of potatoes. Sonia Sotomayor's reading list.


2 February, 2009

James Appell

More Than a Game?

Sport and the Ivory Tower


26 January, 2009

Mark Adomanis

Putin in Shades of Grey

Michael Stuermer's Putin and the Rise of Russia


15 June, 2008

Paul Sonne

Spectacles, Autumn, and the Young Literary Heart

Keith Gessen's All the Sad Young Literary Men


1 March, 2008

Abigail Bright

Art is Best Served Cold

From Russia to London's Royal Academy of Art


15 December, 2007

Paul Sonne

The Red Tsar From Below

Orlando Figes's The Whisperers: Private Life of Stalin's Russia


15 December, 2005

Stephen W. Stromberg

Documenting the KGB

Christopher Andrew's The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World


1 March, 2003

Leonard Epp

The Marquis de Custine and the Question of Russian History

Astolphe de Custine's Letters from Russia


Joshua Cherniss

Philosophers and Freedom

Isaiah Berlin's Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty