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At Lenin’s Tomb

Eugene Vodolazkin

History, to the modern mind, has a goal and follows the path of progress, so that new becomes identified with better. It was on this basis that, a century...

The Age of Concentration

Eugene Vodolazkin

Many regard Russia as backward, lagging behind the West. This is not so. Our shared civilization is changing, and because of our raw experience of the twentieth century, my...

The New Middle Ages

Eugene Vodolazkin

The past is returning. Any return assumes a preceding departure. Perhaps, though, the past never left, and its absence will turn out to have been an illusion. Certain traits...