Decades after that war, when she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward suffering from deep depression, Marta Wollner, a Holocaust survivor, wrote her memoir. Comprising a an intimate... Læs mere
Over one million refugees left Russia at the Bolshevik Revolution. The pain of losing one’s homeland may fade, but the psyche is slow to heal. The Nansen Factor shines a light on the lives of some of these refugees.
Man and His Surroundings is a collection of novellas that are unconnected by one plot, but which altogether constitute a piercing examination of Soviet and post-Soviet culture.... Læs mere
This is the story of Zev Yaroslavsky, a young social activist, who became one of Los Angeles' most powerful and... Læs mere
When a Russian émigré jazz musician makes his DJ debut on the BBC’s airwaves in 1977 with Stevie Wonder’s “Sir Duke,” no one expects that he, Seva Novgorodsev, would become more popular than just a presenter of forbidden Western music—he would liberate the people of the USSR.