April 01, 2011 On PBS this Month: The Great Famine Today, Herbert Hoover – the 31st president of the United States (1929-1933) – is probably most associated with the onset and deepening of the Great Depression. Few know that prior to his presidency he was a successful international mining engineer (and had some lucrative investments in Russia before the Revolution), and later headed up the ARA (American Relief Administration), designed to deliver needed foreign aid to Belgium in the aftermath of World War I. Film & TV History Int'l Relations Reviews Russia File
March 30, 2011 On PBS next week: Desert of Forbidden Art Igor Savitsky single-handedly saved over 40,000 works of avant-garde Soviet art by hiding them in plain sight. Well, in plain sight in a completely out of the way museum in Nukus, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan). Art Film & TV Reviews Russia File
March 15, 2011 Review: The Trinity Six I love a good thriller, and so was excited to get this review copy in the mail last month. The premise is interesting, the characters mainly believable, and the well-layered plot drives you along, just not as intensely as I would have liked. Reviews Russia File
March 03, 2011 Review: The Road & More This amazing collection of fiction and non-fiction by one of the 20th century's most talented and most overlooked writers re-demonstrates that Grossman was a meticulous documentarian of the Russian soul. Literature Reviews Russia File
March 01, 2011 Pamela Potemkin A consideration of Russian leaders and eminences who have left their imprint on the Russian language
March 01, 2011 The Reform Not Taken In 1811 Alexander I was on the brink of sweeping reforms to Russian autocracy. Until he read an essay by historian Nikolai Karamzin.
March 01, 2011 One Step Backward 1921. Russia is on the brink of collapse. Lenin takes a step back from the rapid communization of the economy and allows free market reforms.
