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Gabrielė Liepa reviews "Fragile Memory," a documentary contemplating the fragility of cultural heritage and memories

Marianna Jaśniak reviews "My Favourite War," an intimate animated film recalling life behind the Iron Curtain

Gabrielė Liepa reviews "Maritime Climates," a short film consisting of the surviving fragments from an unusually experimental Soviet film

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "A Life's Music," Andreï Makine's novella exploring music and the Soviet condition

Xandie (Alexandra) Kuenning reviews "The Amorous Detective and Other Stories," a short story collection reminiscing about life in Soviet Georgia

Katherine Leung reviews the poetry of Mikhail Aizenberg, translated by J. Kates in the collection "Say Thank You"

Xandie Kuenning reviews "A Crime in the Family," a memoir from Sacha Batthyány about discovering the dark side of one's family history

Sijie Jiang shows how the lasting influence of Soviet culture on the communist China heavily impacts the course of today's Sino-Russian relations.

If Gorbachev is remembered only for the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia may never escape from the clutches of autocracy, writes Hugo Blewett-Mundy.

Although the Red Army left the Danish island of Bornholm 76 years ago, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought the memories of those events to life again. This small island, stretched between [...]