From the April 2007 Issue The Kulak Tragedy The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements By Lynne Viola LR
From the June 2014 Issue Pasternak Bound The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book By Peter Finn & Petra Couvée LR
From the July 2006 Issue A Russian Anne Frank I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia By Nina Lugovskaya (Translated by Andrew Bromfield) LR
From the April 2006 Issue Last Exit To Uzbekistan The Railway By Hamid Ismailov (Translated by Robert Chandler) LR
From the March 2006 Issue Scholars All At Sea The Philosophy Steamer: Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia By Lesley Chamberlain LR
From the February 2006 Issue Russia’s Special Rules Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture By Richard Pipes LR
From the September 2005 Issue The War From the East A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941–1945 By Antony Beevor (ed) (Translated by Luba Vinogradova) Ivan’s War: The Red Army 1939–1945 By Catherine Merridale LR
From the July 2005 Issue Ten Terrible Days Stalin’s Folly: The Secret History of the German Invasion of Russia, June 1941 By Constantine Pleshakov LR
From the May 2005 Issue The Manufacture of A Martyr Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero By Catriona Kelly LR
From the December 2011 Issue Chilling Tales It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past By David Satter LR
From the March 2012 Issue All Agog The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol By Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Translators) LR
From the July 2012 Issue Making of an Empress Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman By Robert K Massie LR
From the December 2012 Issue Blood on the Streets Moscow, 1937 By Karl Schlögel (Translated by Rodney Livingstone) LR
From the March 2013 Issue The Curtain Falls Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War By Robert Gellately LR
From the June 2013 Issue Lost in Translation The Enchanted Wanderer & Other Stories By Nikolai Leskov (Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky) LR
From the July 2013 Issue His Master’s Voice Diaries and Selected Letters By Mikhail Bulgakov (Edited & translated by Roger Cockrell) LR
From the August 2013 Issue Letters to the Editor The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past By Denis Kozlov LR
From the October 2013 Issue View from the Kremlin Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History By Catherine Merridale LR
From the November 2013 Issue Access All Areas A Spy in the Archives: A Memoir of Cold War Russia By Sheila Fitzpatrick LR
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