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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Reflections On Solzhenitsyn's Centennial

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Solzhenitsyn with  Heinrich Böll  in  Langenbroich , West Germany, 1974  One phrase struck me when reading Michael Scammel's co...
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Friday, December 7, 2018

Remembering My Friend Valery Chalidze (1939-2018)

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Valery Chalidze, Vera Slonim Chalidze, Ilya Slonim, Vicki Bonnell, Tanya Litvinov, with the Slonims' dog Mr. Triqué. Moscow 1970...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Easter or Passover: My Exchange with Gary Saul Morson

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THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS The Right Supper Gregory Freidin and Boris Dralyuk, reply by Gary Saul Morson ...
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Monday, February 26, 2018

Russia: A Very Brief History, Updated

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View from Millionnaia Street onto the Palace Square before the Hermitage, with St. Isaac's in the distance; in the foreground, a deta...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Арсений Рогинский (1946-2017), по памяти

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Знаком я был с Сеней Рогинским с юношеских лет (познакомил Гарик Суперфин ). Мы - ровесники, и в 1960-е годы было много забавных историй...
Friday, August 18, 2017

Babel, Isaac Emmanuilovich (1894-1940)

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Note: Below is my biographical essay on Isaac Babel for the on-line Encyclopedia Britannica , substantially revised and expanded for this ...
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writer, scholar, professor (emeritus, Stanford U); A Coat of Many Colors: Osip Mandelstam, The Enigma of Isaac Babel, Isaac Babel: Selected Writing; Russia on the Barricades, Russian Culture in Transition, The Federalist Papers (in Russian); Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament
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