Who Was The Greatest Russian Ruler?

Imagine yourself as a young girl from an obscure German family.  You are asked to move eastward, to the mighty state of Russia.  There you are to marry the future czar who unfortunately turns out to be an insufferable dolt, too inept for his position.  You take matters into your own hands after years of […]

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Stepping out of Russian fiction, I can’t help but think that Dostoevsky set a tone that would foreshadow 20th century Russia.  I do not mean that the author would ever believe that a crude, false doctrine such as Marxism/Communism would take root in Russia.  But Russian culture, as shown in Dostoevsky’s novel laid the ground work for the most the destructive, most […]

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I’m delving into Russian literature for the first time.  I’m currently reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.  Dostoevsky’s gives us a detailed look inside the mind of a young student, who plans a murder of an old pawnbroker.  The story unfolds as Raskolnikov comes to terms with his horrible crime.  One aspect of this novel is […]

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The title serves a purpose.  I wanted to make a statement with the to reflect the continued moral, intellectual and political chaos of post Communist Russia.  I wanted to direct your attention to an interesting book about modern Russia.  Titled Inside The Stalin Archives: Discoverning the New Russia, the author Jonathan Brent chronicles his journey […]

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One of my favorite subjects in school was history.   A few months ago I read book review from The New York Sun, a now defunct newspaper about The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia.  This book details a little known tragedy in American history.  During the Great Depression over 2ooo Americans decided to leave the country for Russia in the […]

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