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Book Review: ‘Between Shades of Gray’ by Ruta Sepetys
This is the tale of Lina Vilkas, a girl whose first person account chronicles the events of the unwarranted arrest of her family in Lithuania and subsequent deportation – a journey of horror to the far reaches of Siberia.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Collaborators’ by John Hodge
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.
Read More »Book Review: The Hunger Angel: A Novel by Herta Müller
Nobel Prize winner's new novel describes life in a Soviet labor camp
Read More »Book Review: The Patriot Paradox by William Esmont
A bitterness left from the cold war starts another form of revenge.
Read More »Book Review: The Spy’s Demise by Jim Wygant
The Spy’s Demise follows the trail of an Ex-KGB spy as we learn about him not as a product of the Soviet Union but as an man.
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: The Road by Vasily Grossman
Short stories, essays and journalism of Vasily Grossman take readers inside the Soviet Union before, during and after World War II.
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.
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