Books

11 March 2010
The Nightmare of History

TOL Talk: Author Jonathan Brent on plumbing the Soviet archives, negotiating the new Russia, and encountering the real Josef Stalin.

By Andy Markowitz
 
Victor Martinovich
3 February 2010
Love and Paranoia

Belarus clamps downs on a novel that urges citizens to question their role in perpetuating the regime. From openDemocracy.

By Natalia Leshchenko
 
22 January 2010
Eurasianist-in-Chief Premium

In a new biography by a former Tory MP, the Kazakh leader is presented as the savior of his new-old nation.

By Robert A. Saunders
 
saakashvili
5 January 2010
Looking Back at the Rose Revolution
This book leaves the reader with the unsettling feeling that Georgia, once again, is a one-man show. From EurasiaNet.
By Alex van Oss
 
Battle_Kosovo
7 December 2009
Who Killed the Sultan? Premium
Translations of little-known Albanian oral epics add another dimension to the endless conversation over the Battle of Kosovo.
By Robert Murray Davis
 
klima_53
18 November 2009
'I Didn't Believe It Would Last' Premium
A renowned writer on the fleeting joy of November 1989. A TOL special report.
By Natalia O'Hara
 
28 October 2009
Voluntary Captivity
Just as the United States “settled” the Wild West, Russians contended with the Caucasus – and still do. From EurasiaNet.
By Alex van Oss
 
4 August 2009
Europe as Fourth Reich Premium
A foreign correspondent spins a debut novel out of Eastern Europe’s stubborn pathologies.
By Marius Dragomir
 

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