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Short Sharp Conflicts
To Catch a Tartar (Chris Bird, 2002) succeeds as expatriate memoir, history, and journalism. Bird was assigned by his newspapers to cover the brutal the 1994-96 war in Chechnya. He took his wife and young son there, thou… -
Deliver Us from Fervent, Narrow, Dogmatic Minds
Dmitri Volkogonov (1928 – 1995) was the former director of the Soviet Institute of Military History. In that job during the 1980s, he had access to secret Soviet archives. He wrote biographies of the major trio, Lenin, T… -
No Big Messages
Vladimir Nabokov's Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited is a restrained but poignant account of a loving Russian family, a young aristocrat’s experience with a series of tutors, and émigré life in Paris and Berlin. … -
By the Oka River, In the Heartland
Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village is 2nd of ten that I read for the Orbis Terrarum 2009 Challenge. On assignment in the USSR for the New York Times as foreign correspondent in the 1980s and 19… -
Family Saga Russian Style
I read Russian author Ludmila Ulitskaya's Medea and her Children as the fourth and last novel in the 2nds Challenge. It is a family saga, set in the Crimea during the Brezhnev era (stable vs. stagnant, depending on one's… -
Wrap-up for Russian Reading Challenge
Here are the 13 I read this year for the Russian Reading Challenge. Heavy on the short stories because the influence of the Short Story Challenge. This was an unplanned benefit of getting into reading challenge in the p… -
Last One for Russian Reading Challenge
I read a Barnes & Edition The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories as the last book in the Russian Reading Challenge. Leo Tolstoy's most famous novelette is The Death of Ivan Ilyich. A district attorney falls de… -
Nonfiction for a Challenge
V.S. Pritchett was a writer of short stories and novels so in his biography of Ivan Turgenev The Gentle Barbarian he presents some penetrating insights into T’s fiction. He also chose excepts from T’s letters judiciously… -
Nature Writing
Nature's Diary by Mikhail Prishvin is a classic of Russian nature writing, written in the 1920s when the naturalist-author was in his early fifties and before Stalin changed the country forever by killing millions of peo… -
A Novel of the Gulag
Martin Booth was a good British writer that was little known here in the US. His novel Industry of Souls, nominated for the Booker Prize, is the story of a British citizen who is convicted on a bogus spying charge and se…
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