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 Lost in Time: reviewing Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein

Lost in Time: reviewing Russia in Recipes and Lore by Darra Goldstein

February 28, 2021

Despite spending a lot of time in Russia, I don’t like Russian food. For me, it has always been about buckwheat, mayonnaise covered “salads”, and rye bread. While in Russia, I preferred eating [...]

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 Revolutionary Ideals in Fiction: a review of Alexandra Kollontai’s Love of Worker Bees

Revolutionary Ideals in Fiction: a review of Alexandra Kollontai’s Love of Worker Bees

February 17, 2021

Alexandra Kollontai was one of the earlier Bolsheviks, joining the party already in 1915 and as one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive Stalin’s purges, she was a writer not only of political [...]

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 Something for Everyone: reviewing Russia and Central Asia by Shoshana Keller

Something for Everyone: reviewing Russia and Central Asia by Shoshana Keller

February 5, 2021

Have you ever read a book that was so good you couldn’t put it down? What about an academic text? That’s how I felt about Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana [...]

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 The Dissonance of War: Reviewing Absolute Zero by Artem Chekh

The Dissonance of War: Reviewing Absolute Zero by Artem Chekh

January 20, 2021

Artem Chekh is everywhere these days. From the lecture circuit at prestigious universities in the west to topping best-seller charts all over Eastern Europe, this writer-turned-soldier has a [...]

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 Reviewing Killing Auntie by Andrzej Bursa

Reviewing Killing Auntie by Andrzej Bursa

January 15, 2021

The first and only novel of Andrzej Bursa, Killing Auntie tells the absurd story of a character who is all too familiar to a young reader (until the parricide) – he is at the encore of [...]

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 An Ode to Grief: Reviewing Look at Him by Anna Starobinets

An Ode to Grief: Reviewing Look at Him by Anna Starobinets

December 20, 2020

First and foremost, Anna Starobinets’s memoir Look at Him is a testament to the sorrow of losing an unborn child. As such, it’s intended to comfort women and families suffering through the same [...]

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 A Queer Icon: reviewing The Great Nijinsky by Lynn Curlee

A Queer Icon: reviewing The Great Nijinsky by Lynn Curlee

December 13, 2020

The Great Nijinsky is a tragic tale of one of the greatest dancers of the early 20th century. Vaslav Nijinsky was a Polish dancer and choreographer whose works and legacy far overshadow his short [...]

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 Reviewing The Shadow in the East by Aliide Naylor

Reviewing The Shadow in the East by Aliide Naylor

November 29, 2020

Zooming in on the Baltic states, Aliide Naylor’s debut The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front takes the reader on a journey through time and space. Fragmented memories of [...]

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 Cultural Contamination in Russia: reviewing Conspiracy Culture by Keith Livers

Cultural Contamination in Russia: reviewing Conspiracy Culture by Keith Livers

November 22, 2020

Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination by Keith Livers is part of a recent cast of plucky new texts that blur the boundaries between academia and popular culture [...]

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 Reviewing Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945

Reviewing Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945

November 15, 2020

Raz Segal’s Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 draws light to an under-researched tragedy and contextualizes the violence committed in Europe against [...]

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