The Long Road to Ukraine
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
At the age of nine, Frank Furedi experienced a historical event that he would never forget. The Soviet Army crushed the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, forcing Furedi…
Endre Sashalmi. Russian Notions of Power and State in a European Perspectives, 1462-1725: Assessing the Significance of Peter’s Reign. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2022. With its…
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shouldn’t cause us to lose sight of another battle: the gifts of Russia are not exclusive to that country and a dark…
Russia’s Capitalist Realism. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Vadim Shneyder. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2021. Russia’s Capitalist Realism breaks new grounds in the studies of nineteenth-century Russian…
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. In which four Russian give a master class on writing, reading, and life. George Saunders. New York: Random House,…
National identity has been a preoccupation in the tradition of Russian political thought since Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725), who led a cultural revolution in Russia that…
Introduction As with nearly any claim in scholarly discourse, the assertion that the communism espoused by Marx, Lenin, and Stalin constituted a secular religion is a controversial…
Introduction Like a shape-shifter, global communism and its intellectual ideals have shown a remarkable resiliency and an ability to adapt to various cultures. The fall of communism…
Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson, eds., Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.…
On December 2, 1805, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte achieved his most spectacular victory at the Battle of Austerlitz against an allied army of Russians and Austrians.…
The following is an interview with Daniel J. Mahoney, the Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship at Assumption College, about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Between Two Millstones: Book 1: Sketches…
Between Two Milestones. Book I. Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. “Away from home in a country far…
“Live not by lies,” was the advice that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born December 11, 1918) gave his compatriots when they asked him how to stand up to the…
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov, has rightly earned its place among the greatest books of all time. It warrants this stature in no small part because…
Ukraine and Russian Neo-Imperialism: The Divergent Break. Ostap Kushnir. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. Since the end of the Cold War, Ukraine has neither transition to…