Michael Scammell is the author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography and Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. He is Professor Emeritus of Writing and Translation at Columbia. (March 2013)
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The Russian Nobility Under the Red Terror
March 7, 2013
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
by Douglas Smith
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Visits to the Gulag
September 27, 2012
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‘Love Against All Odds’
July 12, 2012
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Love Against All Odds
June 21, 2012
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
by Orlando Figes
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The Master Returns—or Does He?
December 8, 2011
Apricot Jam and Other Stories
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz and Stephan Solzhenitsyn
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Gulag Memories
June 23, 2011
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Circles of Hell
April 28, 2011
Voices from the Gulag
edited by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and translated from the Russian by Kenneth Lantz
Gulag Voices: An Anthology
edited by Anne Applebaum
The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
by Stephen F. Cohen
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
by Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, translated from the Russian and edited by Deborah Kaple
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Opening the Closed Trial
April 8, 2010
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Writers in a Cage
January 14, 2010
Zhivago’s Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
by Vladislav Zubok
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The Willi Münzenberg Mystery
March 9, 2006
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The Mystery of Willi Münzenberg
November 3, 2005
The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West
by Sean McMeekin
Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg, and the Seduction of the Intellectuals
by Stephen Koch, with an introduction by Sam Tanenhaus
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Writing about Koestler
June 15, 2000
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The Solzhenitsyn Archipelago
December 3, 1998
Alexander Solzhenitsyn:A Century in His Life
by D.M. Thomas
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Loyal Toward Reality
September 24, 1998
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
edited and with an introduction by Czeslaw Milosz
Mysticism for Beginners
by Adam Zagajewski
Two Cities: On Exile, History, and the Imagination
by Adam Zagajewski
Winter Dialogue
by Tomas Venclova, translated by Diana Senechal
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Just Like Old Times
November 2, 1995
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Slovenia and Its Poet
October 24, 1991
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Four Poems by Edvard Kocbek
October 24, 1991
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‘The New Yugoslavia’: An Exchange
October 11, 1990
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Yugoslav Troubles
August 16, 1990
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The New Yugoslavia
July 19, 1990
Human Rights in Yugoslavia edited by Oskar Gruenwald, edited by Karen Rosenblum-Cale
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Yugoslavia: the Awakening
June 28, 1990
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Langston Hughes in the USSR
June 29, 1989
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Chameleon
February 28, 1985
Ilya Ehrenburg: Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, War Correspondent, PropagandistThe Extraordinary Epic of a Russian Survivor material by by Anatol Goldberg, with an introduction, postscript, and additional Erik de Mauny
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The Azadovsky Case
April 15, 1982
