Hodge's Olivier Award-winning play fictionalizes the last years of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of 'The Master and Margarita,' who lived one of the 20th century's most interesting (and saddest) literary lives, and his dealings with the dictator Joseph Stalin.
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Theater Review (NYC): ‘Final Analysis’ by Otho Eskin
At the twilight of the Hapsburg Empire, budding luminaries Freud, Stalin, Gustav and Alma Mahler, Ludwig Wittgenstein and a foreboding Young Man discuss events of the day while the culture slides toward war.
Read More »No-Fly Zones Approved in Libya: Doesn’t This Sound Familiar?
Please, Mr. President, we cannot have another war where our men and women's blood runs in the desert sands.
Read More »Book Review: The Ice Road: An Epic Journey from the Stalinist Labor Camps to Freedom by Stefan Waydenfeld
Memoir of Polish deportation to Soviet labor camps during World War II recalls often overlooked history.
Read More »Book Review: Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
Historian's skills and experience are suffused through a novel dealing with three tumultuous periods in Russian history.
Read More »Book Review: The Shipwreck Of A Nation by H. Peter Nennhaus
Fascinating inside account of a boy growing up in Germany during World War Two.
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