Katherine Zubovich examines the decisions and actions of Soviet elites – from top leaders to master architects – and describes the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project
including Ukraine and Poland
Its collapse was one of the seismic shifts of the twentieth century
where alcohol consumption per capita is the highest in the world
idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism
Stalin's Meteorogist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death by Oliver Rolin imperialism-nationalism Katherine Zubovich examines the decisionsThis book was shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2018 One fateful day in 1934, a husband arranged to meet his wife under the colonnade of the Bolshoi theatre. As she waited for him in vain, he was only a few hundred metres away, in a cell in the notorious Lubyanka prison. Less than a year before, Alexey Wangenheim a celebrated meteorologist had been hailed by Stalin as a national hero. But following his sudden arrest, he was exiled to a