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		<title>Journalism’s Roving Eye:  A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/4759</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American.  Karl Marx contributed almost five hundred articles on the European scene to Horace Greeley’s <em>New York Tribune</em> during the years between 1852 and 1861.  This was after Marx had published the <em>Communist Manifesto</em> and was working on <em>Das Kapital</em>; but his reportage for Greeley, though left-leaning, looks to a modern reader relatively objective. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rodchenko &amp; Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2842</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rose Lejeune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the exhibition ‘5 x 5 = 25’ and declared that they would now only make art for everyday life; Productivism. The Tate has devoted a room to this last exhibition of painting, the highlight of which has to be Rodchenko’s ‘Pure Red Colour, Pure Yellow Colour, Pure Blue Colour’ (1921).]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow &amp; St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, &amp; Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/2465</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail Vrubel, Leon Bakst and Kazimir Malevich and inspired patrons like Diaghilev were matched by counterparts in music, architecture, the social sciences and Russia’s burgeoning Industrial Revolution. Composer Igor Stravinsky, the aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky, dancer Vaslav Nijinksy and a host of others formed a constellation of talent worthy of comparison to the leading lights of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de Medici.]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/1077</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor should we try to bring Ukraine into NATO. Ukraine is now independent and recognized by the world as such, but for most of its history its relationship with Russia has been, to say the least, very close; Kiev was the capital of the first Russian state. One assumes the Europeans will continue to prevent either Georgia or Ukraine from joining NATO; but this has not stopped George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, and John McCain from continuing to push the idea.]]></description>
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		<title>The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/796</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history.  So many stories of suffering are here collected, so utterly specific in their brutal details, a strong stomach will be required.  Yet, it is worth the pain since one cannot emerge doubting: the epoch is surely one of history’s most vicious; and its revelation of the Twentieth Century’s brutality is dumbfounding.]]></description>
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		<title>Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/396</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater shares of foreign economies—and thus gaining significant political and even military leverage over them—at our expense. Power has to be a fair balance among a range of tools, including the military, in order to be used effectively. We’re not doing that now, and I don’t see a good strategy coming out of Washington as to how to do it better."]]></description>
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		<title>Comrade J by Pete Earley</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/309</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the vandalism and looting that commenced after 1989, related by Tretyakov, that finally discouraged him, a professional through and through and a Russian patriot. The principles that led to his flight into the cloaking arms of the CIA and FBI are suggestive: leaving behind all his property and possessions, amounting to about two million dollars, was worth it because in his view Russia was ruined and things had gone beyond any hope of redemption in his lifetime. He wanted his daughter to grow up a free woman.]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/302</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late eighteenth century emerging as one of the most momentous, if restless, eras in human history. In Russia, a great dynasty would be toppled; in France, revolution and the guillotine would hold sway; and, in America, the nascent democracy would enter the most critical period of its short existence.]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Battle:  Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/266</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies.  In this battle seven million men took part, and of these 2.5 million were killed, taken prisoner, wounded, or went missing.  The invading Nazi army numbered about three million, which as Nagorski might usefully have mentioned was six times larger than Russia’s last previous major invader, Napoleon’s Grande Armée in 1812.]]></description>
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		<title>Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War &#8211; by Rodric Braithwaite</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/143</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 08:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood with the mind.”]]></description>
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		<title>False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/62</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Comstock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The formula ‘Day X’ in our documents meant the beginning of a large-scale war against the West. Our Department 12...had to participate in this through so-called ‘direct actions,’ which were clandestine acts of biological sabotage and terrorism against ‘potential strike targets’ on the enemy’s territory."]]></description>
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		<title>Jays, Films, and Georg Steller</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/12</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane.  Lord Cochrane’s exploits were at least as great as those of the fictitious Aubrey, and hardly less than those of Britain’s greatest naval hero, Lord Nelson.  But while O’Brian admitted that Cochrane was the inspiration for Aubrey, he did not tell us before he died in 2000 whether he had a real-life model for Maturin. The answer, I think, lies in the handsome bird that I see now beyond our sun room window.]]></description>
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