“A dazzling study of mental anguish and moral dilemma” Author Nick Taussig picks his essential crime fiction reads… The Big…
‘Mother Russia’ had long intrigued the author, but a journey across the country almost changed his mind… The Independent, 3…
“The Distinguished Assassin is Professor Aleksei Klebnikov, banished to a Gulag labour camp in 1949 on trumped-up charges. Set free in…
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Masha Gessen, the Russian journalist, wrote a very important book last year, published by Granta in the UK. The Man Without…
As a postgraduate student of Russian literature at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies in…
Slovo, Vol. 9, No.1, 1996 Mikhalkov’s tale of life in the Russian countryside in the mid-1930s is an apparently idyllic…
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