Aileen Kelly

Aileen Kelly, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, is the author of Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance and, most recently, Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin. (April 2007)

From the Review

April 26, 2007: Why They Believed in Stalin*

Tear Off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin by Jochen Hellbeck

November 3, 2005: A Great Russian Prophet*

The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory by Anna Akhmatova,translated from the Russian, with an introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary, by Nancy K. Anderson

October 9, 2003: The Millennium & Dostoevsky: An Exchange

March 27, 2003: The Two Dostoevskys*

Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871–1881 by Joseph Frank

May 9, 2002: Keeping the Sparks Alive*

Sakharov: A Biography by Richard Lourie

November 29, 2001: In the Promised Land*

Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks

Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

May 25, 2000: Slutsky & History (letter)

March 9, 2000: The Secret Sharer*

Things That Happened commentaries by by Volume 19. Glas New Russian Writing, by Boris Slutsky, edited, translated, and with an introduction and G.S. Smith

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s by Sheila Fitzpatrick

May 20, 1999: The Russian Sphinx*

Russia Under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum by Martin Malia

October 8, 1998: The Sphinx of Russia*

Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village by Serge Schmemann

December 18, 1997: On Isaiah Berlin (1909 - 1997)*

November 6, 1997: Chekhov the Subversive*

Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary Translated from the Russian by Michael Henry Heim. with Simon Karlinsky, introduction and commentary by Simon Karlinsky

Chekhov's Plays: An Opening into Eternity by Richard Gilman

Anton Chekhov: A Life by Donald Rayfield

February 20, 1997: 'Where the Dead Smiled'*

St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina W. Bouis

June 10, 1993: Bakhtin the 'Outsider' (letter)

September 24, 1992: Revealing Bakhtin*

Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson, by Caryl Emerson

December 6, 1990: Brave New Worlds*

Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution by Richard Stites

Revolution and Culture: The Bogdanov-Lenin Controversy by Zenovia A. Sochor

September 24, 1987: Leonard Schapiro's Russia*

Russian Studies by Leonard Schapiro, edited by Ellen Dahrendorf, introduction by Harry Willetts

December 19, 1985: Man in the Middle*

Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, translated by Michael R. Katz

October 11, 1984: The Path of a Prophet*

Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell

July 19, 1984: Heroines*

The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles by Christine Sutherland

June 16, 1983: On the Eve*

In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War by W. Bruce Lincoln

The Romanov Family Album introduction by Robert K. Massie, picture research by Marilyn Pfeifer Swezey, assembled by Anna Vyrubova

February 17, 1983: Russia's Old New Right*

The Origins of Autocracy: Ivan the Terrible in Russian History by Alexander Yanov, translated by Stephen Dunn

October 22, 1981: Justice to Mrs. Tolstoy*

Sonya: The Life of Countess Tolstoy by Anne Edwards

March 19, 1981: Mr. Possessed*

Sergei Nechaev by Philip Pomper

June 29, 1978: Tolstoy in Doubt*

Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879; Volume II, 1880-1910 selected, edited, and translated by R. F. Christian

January 26, 1978: A Victorian Heroine*

Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp

June 23, 1977: Good for the Populists*

In the Name of the People: Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia by Adam B. Ulam

Diary of a Russian Censor by Aleksandr Nikitenko, abridged, edited, and translated by Helen Satz Jacobson

October 28, 1976: Lessons of Kropotkin*

Kropotkin by Martin A. Miller

The Essential Kropotkin edited by Emile Capouya, edited by Keitha Tompkins

April 29, 1976: Art and Life (letter)

April 1, 1976: Freedom and Anarchy (letter)

January 22, 1976: The Fatal Charm of the Millennium*

Michael Bakunin by E.H. Carr

Bakunin: The Father of Anarchism by Anthony Masters

Michael Bakunin: Selected Writings edited by Arthur Lehning, translated by Stephen Cox, by Olive Stevens

July 17, 1975: Revolutionary Women*

Marx's Daughters: Eleanor Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Angelica Balabanoff by Ronald Florence

Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar edited and translated by Barbara Alpern Engel, by Clifford N. Rosenthal

Books by Aileen Kelly

Views from the Other Shore: Essays on Herzen, Chekhov, and Bakhtin (1999)
Toward Another Shore: Russian Thinkers Between Necessity and Chance (1998)
Mikhail Bakunin: A Study in the Psychology and Politics of Utopianism (1982)