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Exploring Uncharted Territory The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia By Orlando Figes Metropolitan. 740 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, “Sparks of Liberty:...

'The Things We Saw!' (August 2007)

‘The Things We Saw!’ Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag By Nicolas Werth Translated by Steven Rendall Princeton. 223 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, “Sparks of Liberty:...

'By Their Wit, Craft and Art' (September 2004)

'By Their Wit, Craft and Art' The Jewish Century By Yuri Slezkine Princeton. 438 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio Liberty" If...

Portrait of a Polymath (May 2002)

Portrait of a Polymath The Fly Swatter: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World By Nicholas Dawidoff Pantheon. 353 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty:...

A City of Many Contrasts (May 2001)

A City of Many Contrasts Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia By W. Bruce Lincoln Basic Books. 419 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of...

While the KGB Watched (November 2000)

While the KGB Watched Making Waves: Stories from My Life By Yakov Alpert Yale. 260 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Author, "Sparks of Liberty: An Insider's Memoir of Radio...

The Way It Was in the USSR (December 1998)

The Way It Was in the USSR Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times By Sheila Fitzpatrick Oxford. 304 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Director of...

The 'Newspapers Without Paper' (February 1998)

The 'Newspapers Without Paper' War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasts in the Cold War By Michael Nelson Syracuse. 277 pp. $29.95. Radio Free Europe and the Pursuit of...

Double-edged Diversity (January 1995)

Double-edged Diversity Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe By Anne Applebaum Pantheon 314 pp $24 00 Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Director of Program Planning Radio Free...

Portrait of a Soviet Seaport (October 1991)

Portrait of a Soviet Seaport How Things Were Done in Odessa: Cultural and Intellectual Pursuits in a Soviet City By Maurice Friedberg Westview Press. 192 pp. S35.00. Reviewed by Gene...

Trotsky Redux (September 1990)

Perspectives TROTSKY REDUX BY GENE SOSIN Lev Davedovich Bronstein, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, was assassinated 50 years ago—on August 20, 1940. Last month also marked the latest...

Visiting with Stalin's Factotum (November 1987)

Visiting with Stalin's Factotum The Wolf of the Kremlin By Stuart Kahan Morrow. 331 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe/ Radio...

Washing Away the Truth (March 1986)

Washing Away the Truth The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization 1917-1929 By Peter Kenez Cambridge. 308 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Program Planning...

Two Journeys Through the Gulag (March 1979)

Two Journeys Through the Gulag Coming Out of the Ice: An Unexpected Life By Victor Herman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 371 pp. $12.95. To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter By Vladimir...

The USSR's Uprooted Nations (July 1978)

The USSR's Uprooted Nations The Punished Peoples By Aleksandr M. Nekrich Norton. 238 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, New...

Defying Doublethink (June 1978)

Defying Doublethink The Challenge Of the Spirit By Boris Shragin Knopf. 262pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, New York Readers of...

Russia's Free Press (December 1977)

Russia's Free Press The Samizdat Register By Roy A. Medvedev (editor) Norton. 314 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, New...

Terminal (August 1957)

TERMINAL I met a traveler from Suburbia Who said: "Today, Coming back to work from my vacation, I saw a monster at the station: A ballistic missile on display. "Perhaps the men who chose to put...

RUSSIA'S FIRST REVOLUTION (November 1955)

FIFTY YEARS AGO Russia's First Revolution How the world press reported the 1905 revolt By Gene Sosin Q ussia Alarmed by Huge Strike," read the beadle nne in the New York Herald. The London Times...

TO A MINIMUM ORBITAL UNMANNED SATELLITE (August 1955)

TO A MINIMUM ORBITAL UNMANNED SATELLITE Some Americans oppose sharing satellite data.—News Item Electronic Davy Crockett, When we launch you from a rocket On your pioneering trip up, Let's be...

Hot Spot (March 1955)

HOT SPOT When Malenkov resigned his chair as Soviet Prime Minister He said the Western bourgeoisie would see this move as sinister; Now George, you must admit there's cause for all our speculations...

No Brooms in GUMs: (October 1954)

NO BROOMS IN GUMs V. Kamenev, director of GUM, the state-owned department store in Moscow, recently admitted that "for the past six months customers have been complaining that in our department...

Chouing Things Over (August 1954)

CHOUING THINGS OVER Chou En-lai Fetes Attlee Group.—Newspaper headline. I see that Clement R. and Nye Have broken bread with Chou En-lai: They tasted shark fins, bamboo shoots, And nibbled at his...

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