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List of articles in category News
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JUST PUBLISHED: My Father's Letters in Germany
JUST PUBLISHED: Mariam Petrosyan's The House That in Bulgaria
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Children of the Volga in Serbia
JUST PUBLISHED: Guzel Yakhina's Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes in Slovakia
JUST PUBLISHED: Sasha Sokolov's A School for Fools in China
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Kukotsky Case in China
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Yakov's Ladder in Italy
JUST PUBLISHED: Ludmila Ulitskaya's Funeral Party in Sweden
Ludmila Ulitskaya presents the French edition of Yakov's Ladder at Livre Paris 2018
Our authors at the Livre Paris 2018
International Memorial Society Chairman Arseny Roginsky Dies At 71
Ludmila Ulitskaya presents the German edition of Yakov's Ladder
JUST PUBLISHED: Yuri Lotman's Conversations about Russian Culture in Italy
Ludmila Ulitskaya is a 2018 Neustadt Prize Finalist
JUST PUBLISHED: The Diary of a GULAG Prison Guard in Netherlands

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Yakov's Ladder, a novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya (2015)

2016 Big Book Award (3rd place) and Reader’s Choice Award

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At first glance, Yacov’s Ladder perfectly embodies the generic definition of a “family saga.” The story of several generations of Osetskys, who were originally from Kiev and then transplanted to Moscow, spans an entire century, from 1911 to 2011. The family saga is, however, no more than a shell, a shapely vessel chosen by the author in her search for answers to the questions posed inexorably and...

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The Triumph of Provocation, collected essays by Józef Mackiewicz

Original Polish title: Zwycięstwo prowokacji

Rights status: available for all languages less Polish and English.

Published by: English - Yale University Press (2009), Polish - Kontra, Russian - Zarya, German - Bergstadtverlag W.G. Korn

This masterful political treatise, first published in 1962, examines the history and nature of Communism as it developed in the Soviet Union and in Poland. Józef Mackiewicz, known for his relentless opposition to Communism, argues that accommodation with the Communists simply helped them to impose their vision of the world and pursue their goal of global domination. He compares Communism to Nazism and insists that the former was the greater threat to the future of humanity.

Mackiewicz's unique interpretation of the differences and similarities between Communism and Nazism is highly relevant to debates about these two systems and to major contemporary issues which are of particular importance to the U.S. and Europe, including radical Islam...

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