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Yuri Slezkine is a Professor of the Graduate School in the History Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Research Fellow at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. His latest books are The Jewish Century and The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. (July 2024)
A Sacred Scripture of Doubt
A new book by Gary Saul Morson tells how Russian realist fiction foretold, frustrated, and outlived the Bolshevik quest for certainty.
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
by Gary Saul Morson
July 18, 2024 issue
‘He Loved Handing Out Decorations’
The admiring biographer of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Union’s most memorably inconspicuous leader, finds him an affable heartthrob who longed for peace “with every fibre of his body.”
Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman
by Susanne Schattenberg, translated from the German by John Heath
June 9, 2022 issue
Arias in the Archive
Maria Stepanova wants to memorialize the dead in her family but is conflicted about the very possibility—and morality—of the quest.
In Memory of Memory: A Romance
by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale
November 18, 2021 issue
Speak, Memory?
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
by Alex Halberstadt
October 22, 2020 issue
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