Book Reviews
by Helen Rappaport St. Martin’s Press, 2018 In her book The Race To Save The Romanovs Helen Rappaport pulls from previously unseen documents to present the true, and harrowing story behind the secret plans to save the Russian Imperial family in the wake of the the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, and the Bolshevik Revolution….
by Paul W. Werth Oxford University Press, 2021 In his book 1837 Historian and Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Paul W. Werth gives his readers a deeper look into the events that sculpted such a pivotal year in Russian history. The year began with the death of famed poet, father of Russian…
by Serhii Plokhy Basic Books, 2015 Serhii Plokhy’s 2014 book, The Last Empire, examines in fine detail the collapse of the Soviet Union. Plokhy, the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University is a Ukrainian American historian who has written extensively on the subjects of Ukrainian, Russian, and…
by Serhii Plokhy Basic Books, 2020 Serhii Plokhy’s Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe is a brilliant examination of both the scientific and political ramifications of the catastrophic explosion of the Chernobyl Unit 4 RBMK nuclear reactor. Plokhy delivers a comprehensive breakdown of the science of nuclear reaction, as well as the science and engineering behind…
by Anne Applebaum Penguin Random House, 2017 Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum is a gripping tale presenting the horrors that occurred in Ukraine during a period now referred to as the holodomor. The word is comprised of two parts, the first, ‘holod, the Ukrainian word for hunger, and ‘mor,’ the Ukrainian word for death…
by Andrew D. Kaufman Riverhead Books, 2021 In The Gambler Wife Kaufman presents a fantastic analysis of Dostoevsky’s stenographer turned wife, turned ultimate savior, Anna Snitkin. From her first days working for the great Russian writer to her last years fighting for the preservation of his legacy, Anna Dostoevskaya was a woman of immense fortitude, intelligence, and…
