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Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
December 27, 2023Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
December 13, 2023In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...
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Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920: Art, Life, & Culture of the Russian Silver Age by John E. Bowlt
December 11, 2023Writers of the caliber of Anton Chekov, Alexsander Blok and Anna Akhmatova, visionary artists like Mikhail...
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Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
December 1, 2023The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
November 29, 2023Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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Parag Khanna Discusses The Second World
November 19, 2023"Around the entire world what I see is Europe and China investing into and buying greater...
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Comrade J by Pete Earley
November 16, 2023It was the goings-on, the kleptocracy that emerged, the sheer blatant thuggery of Putin’s entourage, the...
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The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik
November 15, 2023In twelve short years – from 1788 to 1800 – the world changed, with the late...
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The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II by Andrew Nagorski
November 6, 2023He focuses on the assault on Moscow, the largest battle in history between two opposing armies....