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Russia’s 1914 military disaster is set beside the lives of those it unsettles.

Historical fiction

A threatened school reveals the gap between official purpose and ordinary people’s work.

Fiction

A prisoner’s daily routines reveal survival and dignity in a Soviet labour camp.

Fiction

Solzhenitsyn proposes a future for Russia as the Soviet system breaks apart.

Essays

A Tashkent cancer ward brings illness and Stalinism’s lasting effects into conversation.

Fiction

Survivor testimony reveals the machinery and human consequences of Soviet imprisonment.

History

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