March 01, 2011 Perestroika, Molotov and Dachas A review of the film "My Perestroika," and the books "Dacha Idylls," "Molotov's Magic Lantern," and "The Road."
March 01, 2011 Poetry to Sweeten the Sale A look at Vladimir Mayakovsky as painter and poet, and a recipe for Tyanuchki - a candy-like fudge.
March 01, 2011 Emergencies, Disasters and Scandals, Oh My! A look at the recent spate of disasters and crises.
March 01, 2011 Time and Space What makes this magazine different is not the people creating it, but the people reading it.
March 01, 2011 50 Years in Space On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to orbit the earth. By all accounts, they could not have chosen a better man for the mission.
January 19, 2011 Post WWII Years The Allied nations of WWII made for a tenuous union at best. The main thing that held Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union together was their common enemy, Hitler. Not long after the end of WWII, the Western allies parted company with the Soviet Union and its leader, Joseph Stalin. History Russia File
January 09, 2011 The Little Golden Calf Named Best Translation of 2010 We are EXCITED to announce that Anne O. Fisher's translation of Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov's classic novel, The Little Golden Calf, which we published in 2009, has received the 2010 AATSEEL Book Award for Best Translation into English. Literature Reviews Russian Life Magazine Russia File
January 01, 2011 Survival Japanese Where columnist Mikhail Ivanov considers the influence of Japanese on Russian language and slang.
January 01, 2011 Modigliani and Akhmatova in Paris We know comparatively little about the relationship between Akhmatova and Modigliani, but sometimes a few pictures can speak volumes. Literature
