Russia
Russia’s full-throttle invasion of Ukraine is so shocking because it is such a brazen assault on the post-1945 world order. Reminiscent of the age of empire, this is no border skirmish but an attempt to extinguish and cannibalise an independent neighbouring country.
... (read more)Internationalist Aesthetics: China and early Soviet culture by Edward Tyerman
by Iva Glisic •
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet home front during World War II by Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
Russia Is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War edited by Maria Bloshteyn
by David Wells •
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to free Russia by Benjamin Tromly
by Mark Edele •
The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s wartime correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt edited by David Reynolds and Vladimir Pechatnov
by Sheila Fitzpatrick •
Letters to the Editor: Tony Kevin from Gordon writes on Jeff Sparrow's Trigger Warnings; John Lowe from Ormond on D. H. Lawrence; and some comments on Behrouz Boochani and his poem 'Flight from Manus' ...
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