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 The Turning Tides: reviewing Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika by Barbara Martin

The Turning Tides: reviewing Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika by Barbara Martin

March 31, 2022

Katherine Leung review Barbara Martin's Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union: From De-Stalinization to Perestroika.

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 A Review of Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps, 1924-53

A Review of Criminal Subculture in the Gulag: Prisoner Society in the Stalinist Labour Camps, 1924-53

March 20, 2022

Although much is known about life in the gulag via the memoirs of political prisoners such as Eugenia Ginzburg and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, there is little research on the experience of the 49ers. [...]

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 The Unsentimentality of Childhood: reviewing The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili

The Unsentimentality of Childhood: reviewing The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili

November 19, 2021

Katherine Leung reviews the debut novel by Georgian director and filmmaker Nana Ekvtimishvili and is overcome by sadness as she finishes the last pages of a powerful and moving story set in a [...]

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 The Beginning – reviewing Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse

The Beginning – reviewing Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse

October 18, 2021

"Armchair historians rejoice. Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse is the book you didn’t know you were waiting for." Book review by Katherine Leung.

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 Archiving the Voices of Children – reviewing Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951 by Karl D. Qualls

Archiving the Voices of Children – reviewing Stalin’s Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951 by Karl D. Qualls

August 18, 2021

Katherine Leung review Karl D. Qualls' Stalin's Niños: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-1951.

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 Hearing Kazakhstan: Talasbek Asemkulov’s A Life at Noon and the words between the music

Hearing Kazakhstan: Talasbek Asemkulov’s A Life at Noon and the words between the music

March 31, 2021

"The author’s passion for music and culture is enough for the novel to deliver a fascinating portrait of Kazak culture and a definitive record of the words between the music".

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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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