Reflections February 2021
Meeting Mrs. Mandelstam
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On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
On the Russian writer Nadezhda Mandelstam.
On Isaac Stern, Soviet architecture & Oxbridge history.
On a visit to the Joseph Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia.
On comedy in the shadow of the Chernobyl tragedy.
On the Soviet virtue of cruelty.
On the passage of time and totalitarian callousness.
On the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Vasily Grossman’s great anti-Soviet novel Life and Fate.
On Nadezhda Mandelstam’s literary achievements.