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Reviews of a history of punk rock and a novel about a not very likeable woman.

Mikhail is the director of a book store that has been operating in St. Petersburg since 1926.

Join us on a visit to Brighton Beach, a slice of Russia in America that has been shaped by the immigrant experience.

Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history. 

On this day, 28 years ago, two naive young Americans sat down and agreed to found a publishing company together. This publishing company.

Call it resilience, grit, or just perseverance – it takes a special sort of person to have survived the last 100 years of Russian and Soviet history. 

In which we review a mystery, a Gulag guard's memoir, a parable of the avant-garde, and a collection of Valentin Rasputin's prose.

The Children of 1917 project offers an amazing journey through time. You will learn about the lives of some remarkable survivors: Russians who not only were born in that tumultuous 1917, but who then lived through Civil War, industrialization, collectivization, Stalinism, World War II, the Cold War, Khrushchev, the era of Stagnation, the collapse of the USSR, and the turn of the twenty-first Century.