In Search of Babushka
Babushka’s Journey: The Dark Road to Stalin’s Wartime Camps is an eloquent travel memoir that also manages to do the […]
Category: sovietica
Moja droga (Part 1)
Maybe she had asked the question before; maybe she’d forgotten my rambling answer. I vaguely remember, perhaps, that we’d had […]
The Crimean Tense: When Past Is Present
Referencing the past is a weak form of analysis and one that offers little insight to the current situation in […]
Legend
I don’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know of Van Cliburn. From small-town east Texas, he […]
Into the Past, Part I
I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve […]
Malevich and Suprematism, Part I
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich [Казимир Северинович Малевич] was Russian in its most contested forms: he was born in Ukraine of ethnic […]
Elektro-Szokotczka
Back in the Soviet Union children of the formerly bourgeois often held names from refashioned revolutionary slogans and technological innovations. […]
Elektro-Szokotczka
Back in the Soviet Union children of the formerly bourgeois often held names from refashioned revolutionary slogans and technological innovations. […]
Found in Translation
Below is a snippet of a poem from Soviet dissident poet Igor Guberman that was mentioned on one of the […]
