Benjamin Nathans | The New York Review of Books

Profiles in Decency

Pravo na Pamiat [The Right to Memory]

a documentary film directed by Ludmila Gordon

Meeting Gorbachev

a documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and André Singer

April 23, 2020 issue

Rewriting Human Rights

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

by Samuel Moyn

Necessary Evil: How to Fix Finance by Saving Human Rights

by David Kinley

December 5, 2019 issue

To Hell and Back

Kolyma Stories: Volume One

by Varlam Shalamov, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Donald Rayfield

December 6, 2018 issue

Bolshevism’s New Believers

Yuri Slezkine’s monumental new study, ‘The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution’

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution

by Yuri Slezkine

November 23, 2017 issue

Russia: The Joyful New Activism

Protest in Putin’s Russia

by Mischa Gabowitsch

August 17, 2017 issue

The Real Power of Putin

Nine recent books examine his rise and the direction of Russian politics

The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

by Steven Lee Myers

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

by Anne Garrels

Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes

by Vladimir Gel’man

The Strong State in Russia: Development and Crisis

by Andrei P. Tsygankov

Putinism: Russia and Its Future with the West

by Walter Laqueur

The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin

by David Satter

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

by Charles Clover

Russia and the New World Disorder

by Bobo Lo

Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire

by Agnia Grigas

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September 29, 2016 issue