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Second Glance: A Voice Displaced

"Second Glance: A Voice Displaced" by Karen Vanuska Last year Sovietologists and a few nonfiction book critics celebrated the publication of Lesley Chamberlain’s Lenin’s Private War: the Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia. Thanks to Chamberlain’s thorough research and translation of recently-released Soviet documents, Lenin’s exile of two boatloads of [...]

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Nina Berberova’s “Lost World”

"The Lost World" by Michael Frank Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2002 The story of Nina Berberova’s career has all the earmarks of a literary fable that might have been written by Henry James or her compatriot Vladimir Nabokov or even by Berberova herself, although it never was. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1901, [...]

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