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Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities and a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern. His most recent book is Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter. (February 2025)

Russian Exceptionalism

Russian Exceptionalism

After the fall of the USSR, liberalism, considered foreign, was overwhelmed by various types of nationalism, one of which, Eurasianism, seems to have achieved the status of a semiofficial ideology.

Foundations of Eurasianism

translated from the Russian and edited by Jafe Arnold and John Stachelski

The Gumilev Mystique: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia

by Mark Bassin

Osnovy geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii [Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia]

by Aleksandr Dugin

Eurasian Mission: An Introduction to Neo-Eurasianism

by Aleksandr Dugin

The Fourth Political Theory

by Aleksandr Dugin

Black Wind, White Snow: Russia’s New Nationalism

by Charles Clover

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February 22, 2024 issue

Death and the Hedgehog

Death and the Hedgehog

With his conversion to his own highly distinct form of Christianity, Tolstoy made a religion of universal love, forsaking violence, laws, private property, and high culture.

Tolstoy as Philosopher: Essential Short Writings (1835–1910): An Anthology

edited and translated from the Russian by Inessa Medzhibovskaya

On Life: A Critical Edition

by Leo Tolstoy, edited by Inessa Medzhibovskaya, and translated from the Russian by Michael Denner and Inessa Medzhibovskaya

June 22, 2023 issue

Living Outside of Time

Living Outside of Time

In Eugene Vodolazkin’s polyphonic novels, the past addresses historians to come, time seems to repeat itself, and the future brings a fundamental change in temporality.

Brisbane

by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

The Aviator

by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden

Laurus

by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden

Solovyov and Larionov

by Eugene Vodolazkin, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden

January 19, 2023 issue

What Solzhenitsyn Understood

What Solzhenitsyn Understood

Detecting the same incompetence and self-satisfaction among the liberals of the Provisional Government in 1917 and the reformers of the post-Soviet era in the 1990s, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn feared another descent into authoritarian rule.

March 1917: The Red Wheel/Node III (8 March–31 March): Book 3

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

Between Two Millstones: Book 2, Exile in America, 1978–1994

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated from the Russian by Clare Kitson and Melanie Moore, and with a foreword by Daniel J. Mahoney

May 12, 2022 issue

Falling in Love with Terror

Falling in Love with Terror

Boris Savinkov practiced the two most prestigious Russian occupations in the early twentieth century: terrorism and novel writing.

To Break Russia’s Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks

by Vladimir Alexandrov

Pale Horse: A Novel of Revolutionary Russia

by Boris Savinkov, translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz and with an introduction by Otto Boele

January 13, 2022 issue

Letter

Vladimir Alexandrov

A Hero Of His Time?

April 7, 2022 issue

Dostoevsky and His Demons

Dostoevsky and His Demons

Three biographers take different approaches to the great writer’s life, which often resembled his most fantastic tales.

Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism: Volume 1: In the Beginning, 1821–1845

by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism: Volume 2: The Gathering Storm, 1846–1847

by Thomas Gaiton Marullo

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

by Alex Christofi

Lectures on Dostoevsky

by Joseph Frank, edited by Marina Brodskaya and Marguerite Frank

July 1, 2021 issue

Casting Pearls Before Repetilovs

Casting Pearls Before Repetilovs

The brief, dashing life of Alexander Griboedov, who wrote the most-performed play in the Russian repertory, married a princess, and died during a bloody uprising in Persia.

Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

by Alexander Griboedov, translated from the Russian by Betsy Hulick

The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar

by Yuri Tynianov, translated from the Russian by Susan Causey and edited by Vera Tsareva-Brauner

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar

by Yury Tynyanov, translated from the Russian by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush

March 25, 2021 issue

Letter

Betsy Hulick

See for Yourself

May 27, 2021 issue

Truly Terrible

Truly Terrible

Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish

by Charles J. Halperin

February 27, 2020 issue

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