non-fiction Archives - Lossi 36

Ten portraits, one pulse: seeing Uzbekistan through its unnoticed heroes in Jahongir Azimov’s “Another day in Uzbekistan”

Ten portraits, one pulse: seeing Uzbekistan through its unnoticed heroes in Jahongir Azimov’s “Another day in Uzbekistan”

February 1, 2026

Mathieu Lemoine reviews Jahongir Azimov’s "Another Day in Uzbekistan", offering a portrait of contemporary life beyond post-Soviet clichés.

Stalinist salads and Napoleon cakes: “Russian Food Since 1800” by Catriona Kelly

Stalinist salads and Napoleon cakes: “Russian Food Since 1800” by Catriona Kelly

Maja Soomägi reviews Catriona Kelly's "Russian Food Since 1800", an intro to food culture in the Russian empire and Soviet Union.

Experiencing the 1990s on an Estonian peninsula: “Everything is Wonderful” by Sigrid Rausing

Experiencing the 1990s on an Estonian peninsula: “Everything is Wonderful” by Sigrid Rausing

September 9, 2024

Baltics editor Maja Soomägi reviews "Everything is Wonderful," Sigrid Rausing's book based on her anthropological fieldwork in Estonia

Voices of Resistance in Putin’s Russia: “La Russia che si ribella – repressione e opposizione nel paese di Putin” by Maria Chiara Franceschelli and Federico Varese

Voices of Resistance in Putin’s Russia: “La Russia che si ribella – repressione e opposizione nel paese di Putin” by Maria Chiara Franceschelli and Federico Varese

August 28, 2024

Giorgia Cacciotti reviews "La Russia che si ribella" — a book ideal for exploring the complexities of Russian society

Providing a background to the present: “The Multiethnic Soviet Union and Its Demise” by Brigid O’Keeffe

Providing a background to the present: “The Multiethnic Soviet Union and Its Demise” by Brigid O’Keeffe

November 10, 2023

Maja Soomägi reviews "The Multiethnic Soviet Union and its Demise," a concise examination of the role ethnicity played in the Soviet Union

Isolation, paranoia, and cruelty on a daily basis: “Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania” by Margo Rejmer

Isolation, paranoia, and cruelty on a daily basis: “Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania” by Margo Rejmer

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "Mud Sweeter Than Honey," an oral history of Communist Albania into the 1990s

Resisting and re-existing: “What does it mean to be post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire” by Madina Tlostanova

Resisting and re-existing: “What does it mean to be post-Soviet?: Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire” by Madina Tlostanova

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews Madina Tlostanova's seminal work examing how decolonial art can build a new future within post-Soviet states

Reviewing “A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union” by Elizabeth White

Reviewing “A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union” by Elizabeth White

September 21, 2022

Katherine Leung reviews A Modern History of Russian Childhood: From the Late Imperial Period to the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Elizabeth White.

Illiberal anxieties: A review of ”Varieties of Post-Communist Capitalism” by Peter Mihályi and Iván Szelényi

Illiberal anxieties: A review of ”Varieties of Post-Communist Capitalism” by Peter Mihályi and Iván Szelényi

August 15, 2022

"This book is a very high-level look at the culture and economics of Russia, Eastern Europe, and China", writes Katherine Leung.

Intersectional and Transnational: reviewing Russia in World History

Intersectional and Transnational: reviewing Russia in World History

Katherine Leung review Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach by Choi Chatterjee.