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Sophie Pinkham is the author of
Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine
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February 1, 2022
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
Searching for Freedom After the Cold War
Lea Ypi’s memoir recounts Albania’s troubled transition to democracy.
May 1, 2020
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
How Vivian Gornick Reinvigorated Political Writing
Her most criticized book, “The Romance of American Communism,” has become a modern classic.
August 27, 2019
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
Vasily Grossman’s Lost Epic
Why was his World War II novel "Stalingrad" shunned by publishers for so long?
May 3, 2018
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
No Direction Home
Why have post-Soviet countries embraced populism and nostalgia?
March 29, 2018
Sophie Pinkham
The Provocative Brilliance of
The Death of Stalin
Why is Armando Iannucci’s new film effectively banned in Russia?
September 26, 2017
Magazine
Sophie Pinkham
Understanding Russia’s War Stories
Putin’s foreign policy is rooted in an epic myth of betrayal and redemption.
July 3, 2017
Sophie Pinkham
How a Russian Street Art Museum Defies Kremlin Censors
St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.
August 29, 2016
Sophie Pinkham
Witness Tampering
Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories.
October 9, 2015
Sophie Pinkham
Svetlana Alexievich, The Dostoevsky of Nonfiction
The Nobel Prizewinner’s compassionate oral histories resist Cold War narratives
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