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Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence: British praise, American silence … so...
Portrait of the artist as a young man: cover painting by Leonid Pasternak, the Nobel laureate's father In general, Hoover Press isn’t known for its groundbreaking literary fare — its more usual titles...
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Terror’s human face: Women of the Gulag – the book and the movie. Help make...
Marianna Yarovskaya on location I met Paul Gregory a couple years back, when his Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (Hoover Institution Press,...
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Women of the Gulag: when life meets history
Today Joseph Stalin is one of the most admired figures in contemporary Russia. Go figure. Sure he did bad things, but it was worth it, right? So the line of thinking goes. Paul Gregory, author of...
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“My friendship with him was perhaps the longest he’d ever had.” Stanford’s...
I’ve known Paul Gregory for several years (and written about him here and here and here) – I know him as a compelling writer, a fine Russian scholar, and the author of books on the women of the...
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Former Baltic president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga: “Ukraine is being dismembered...
At Stanford, Latvian president recalled the long, hard road to independence. (Photo: Jim Hatlo, EyeDoMedia) Former Latvian president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga was in town last week – and, just as I...
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Women of the Gulag: help finish the film. Putin won’t like it.
Marianna Yarovskaya on location Paul Gregory, author of Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin’s Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (Hoover Institution Press, 2010), is passing the...
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Will Women of the Gulag get an Oscar next month? Please vote yes. Putin won’t...
Marianna Yarovskaya filming on location in Russia Everyone nowadays is terrified of Russia, talking about Russia, condemning Russia – but comparatively few make any attempt to find out what Russia is...
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Oscar endorsement for Women of the Gulag: “To go through such suffering...
She made a movie on the “slaves of the slaves.” Russian American filmmaker Marianna Yarovskaya sent me a short note after she read the earlier Book Haven post on her new film Women of the Gulag, based...
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Stalin loses at the Academy Awards … again.
Women of the Gulag was a last-chance attempt to record he memories of the women who had faced arrest, torture, incarceration, hard labor, and abuse during the Soviet years – an untold story kept by...
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International honors for “Women of the Gulag”– and an exclusive podcast from...
It premiered in Hollywood and New York – but on June 11, Women of the Gulag, a documentary film based on Paul Gregory‘s book of the same name, came home to Stanford. It got a big audience at Hoover’s...
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