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THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM: RUSSIA, EUROPE, AMERICA by Timothy Snyder

 

THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE: THE UNLIKELY RISE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN by Masha Gessen

THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: HOW TOTALITARIANISM RECLAIMED RUSSIA by Masha Gessen

RED FAMINE: STALIN’S WAR ON UKRAINE by Anne Applebaum

 

BLOODLANDS: EUOPE BETWEEN HITLER AND STALIN by Timothy Snyder

NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE: THE SURREAL HEART OF THE NEW RUSSIA by Peter Pomerantsev

 

HOW TO LOSE THE INFORMATION WAR: RUSSIA, FAKE NEWS, AND THE FUTURE OF CONFLICT by Nina Jankowicz

PUTIN’S PEOPLE: HOW THE KGB TOOK BACK RUSSIA AND THEN TOOK ON THE WEST  by Catherine Belton

 

BETWEEN TWO FIRES:TRUTH, AMBITION, AND COMPROMISE IN PUTIN’S RUSSIA by Joshua Yaffa

 

THE GATES OF EUROPE: A HISTORY OF UKRAINE by Serhii Plokhy

RED NOTICE: A TRUE STORY OF HIGH FINANCE, MURDER, AND ONE MAN’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE by Bill Browder

FREEZING ORDER: A TRUE STORY OF MONEY, LAUNDERING, MURDER, AND SURVIVING VLADIMIR PUTIN’S WRATH by Bill Browder

TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY: THE SEDUCTIVE LURE OF AUTHORITARIANISM by Anne Applebaum

 

BORDERLAND: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HISTORY OF UKRAINE by Anne Reid

THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA: THE RISE OF PUTIN AND THE AGE OF FAKE NEWS by Arkady Ostorvsky

THE NEW TSAR: THE RISE AND REIGN OF VLADIMIR PUTIN by Steven Lee Myers

THE PLOT TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY: HOW PUTIN AND HIS SPIES ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA AND DISMANTLING THE WEST by Malcolm Nance

RUSSIAN ROULETTE: THE INSIDE STORY OF PUTIN’S WAR ON AMERICA AND THE ELECTION OF DONALD TRUMP by Michael Isikoff

CONFLICT IN UKRAINE: THE UNWINDING OF THE POST-COLD WAR ORDER by Rajan Menon

HERE, RIGHT MATTERS: AN AMERICAN STORY by Alexander Vindman Lt. Col.. U.S. Army (RET.)

SURVIVING AUTOCRACY by Masha Gessen

I WILL DIE IN A FOREIGN LAND: A NOVEL by Kalani Pickhart

FROM THREE WORLDS: NEW WRITING FROM UKRAINE

Edited by Askold Melnyczuk, Ed Hogan, and Michael Naydan


NEW EPISODE: Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan podcast featuring

Askold Melnyczuk & Olha Poliukhovych, Ph.D.

The War in Ukraine

Joining Mitchell Kaplan from Ukraine is Dr. Olha Poliukhovych, writer, philosopher, and professor of humanities at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine’s oldest university. From Boston, Askold Melnyczuk, acclaimed novelist, short story writer, founding member of Writers for Democratic Action, and co-editor of From Three Worlds, an anthology of Ukrainian writers. “When I read or hear the news from abroad, I see Ukrainian crisis, conflict, Ukrainian-Russia conflict…It’s not a conflict; it’s war,” said Dr. Poliukhovych.

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