Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads. Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction Subscribe to the podcast via this link: Feedburner Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: Subscribe Or listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via Stitcher Or listen through Spotify  Or listen through Google Podcasts Books we can recommend: Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi by Teffi Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich Last Witnesses by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear & Volokhonsky Zinky Boys by Svetlana Alexievich Voices of Chernobyl (also titled Chernobyl Prayer) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen Other Russias by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas Campbell The Future is History by Masha Gessen Never Remember by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha Friedman Where the Jews Aren’t by Masha Gessen Pushkin’s Children by Tatyana Tolstaya The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya Imperium by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield Putin Country by Anne Garrels Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke Sovietistan by Erika Fatland The Commissar Vanishes by David King Gulag by Anne Applebaum The Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum The Magical Chorus by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis  Shostaskovich and Stalin by Solomon Volkov The Tiger by John Vaillant Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan Slaght How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen Books we are considering: All Lara’s Wars by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved abridged version, 400-some pages) Journey into the Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Life Written by Himself by Avvakum Petrov My Childhood by Maxim Gorky Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter by Edythe Haber Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya Notes on Russian Literature by F.M. Dostoevsky The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece by Kevin Birmingham The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin Birmingham Less than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky Tolstoy Together by Yiyun Li The Border by Erika Fatland Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson Red Plenty by Francis Spufford Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union by Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster by Kate Brown Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters by Kate Brown A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland by Kate Brown October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev Across the Ussuri Kray by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army by Vasily Grossman The Road by Vasily Grossman Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl by Markiyan Kamysh Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia by David Greene Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine & beyond by Olia Hercules Red Sands by Caroline Eden Black Sea by Caroline Eden Tasting Georgia by Carla Capalbo   Other mentions: PEN list of writers against Putin New Yorker article about Gessen siblings Thanksgivukkah 2013  League of Kitchens - Uzbek lesson League of Kitchens - Russian lesson Masha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022 Related episodes: Episode 067 - Rain and Readability with Ruth(iella) Episode 084 - A Worthy Tangent with Bryan Alexander Episode 138 - Shared Landscape with Lauren Weinhold Episode 237 - Reading Goals 2022 Episode 243 - Russian Novel Speed Date  Stalk us online: Reading Envy Readers on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia) Lauren at Goodreads Lauren is @end.notes on Instagram Jenny at Goodreads Jenny on Twitter Jenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org.

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Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction

APR 5, 2022-1 MIN
Reading Envy

Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction

APR 5, 2022-1 MIN

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<p>Lauren W. will be co-hosting this non-fiction quarter of Reading Envy Russia. We share books we have already read and freely recommend, and also chat about the piles and shelves of books we are considering. Let us know your recommendations and where you hope to start in the comments, or join the conversation in Goodreads.<br /></p><p>Download or listen via this link:<i><b> <br /></b></i><a href="http://www.nathanielcolvin.com/readingenvy/episodes/ReadingEnvy244.mp3">Reading Envy 244: 2nd Quarter - Russian Non-Fiction</a> <br /> <br /> Subscribe to the podcast via this link:&nbsp;<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/readingenvypodcast">Feedburner</a><br /> Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-envy/id804271884">Subscribe</a><br /> Or listen through <a href="http://tunein.com/radio/Reading-Envy-Podcast-p813442/">TuneIn </a><br /> Or listen on <a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen?t=Reading_Envy&amp;view=/ps/Isnb3ncf7nnehe5ovmgbt6qd3he">Google Play</a> <br /> Or listen via <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/reading-envy">Stitcher</a><br /> Or listen through <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4rFLRAGCXed29RitjXdm38?si=fkR0M3BlSKiYH9I86hvEBg">Spotify&nbsp;</a><br /> Or listen through <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL2Jsb2dzcG90L09GT3VR">Google Podcasts </a><br /></p><p> <br /></p><p>Books we can recommend:<i> <br /></i></p><p><i><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590179512">Memories from Moscow to the Black Sea</a> </i>by Teffi <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590179963"><i>Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me: The Best of Teffi</i></a> by Teffi<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588822"><i>Secondhand Time</i></a> by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588747"><i>The Unwomanly Face of War</i></a> by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780399588761"><i>Last Witnesses</i></a> by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Pevear &amp; Volokhonsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393336863"><i>Zinky Boys</i></a> by Svetlana Alexievich<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781628973303"><i>Voices of Chernobyl</i></a> (also titled <i>Chernobyl Prayer</i>) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Keith Gessen<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3iWCqDh"><i>Other Russias</i></a> by Victoria Lomasko, translated by Thomas Campbell<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781594634543"><i>The Future is History</i> </a> by Masha Gessen <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780997722963"><i>Never Remember</i></a> by Masha Gessen, photography by Misha Friedman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780805242461"><i>Where the Jews Aren’t</i> </a> by Masha Gessen <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780618125005"><i>Pushkin’s Children</i></a> by Tatyana Tolstaya <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590171967"><i>The Slynx</i></a> by Tatyana Tolstaya<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679747802"><i>Imperium </i></a>by Ryszard Kapucinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska<br /> <a href="https://amzn.to/3DEEKIz"><i>A Very Dangerous Woman: The Lives, Loves and Lies of Russia’s Most Seductive Spy</i></a> by Deborah McDonald and Jeremy Dronfield<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250118110"><i>Putin Country</i></a> by Anne Garrels<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781250118110"><i>Letters: Summer 1926</i> </a>by Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Rainer Maria Rilke <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781643137698"><i>Sovietistan </i></a>by Erika Fatland <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781849762519"><i>The Commissar Vanishes</i></a> by David King <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400034093"><i>Gulag </i></a>by Anne Applebaum <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400095933"><i>The Iron Curtain</i></a> by Anne Applebaum <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781400077861"><i>The Magical Chorus</i></a> by Solomon Volkov, translated by Antonina Bouis&nbsp; <br /><a href="https://amzn.to/36H0GXH"><i>Shostaskovich and Stalin</i></a> by Solomon Volkov <br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3iYrG7q"><i>The Tiger</i></a> by John Vaillant <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374228484"><i>Owls of the Eastern Ice</i></a> by Jonathan Slaght <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780226599717"><i>How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution</i></a> by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut <br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3qVjBVr"><i>Please to the Table</i></a> by Anya von Bremzen <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780307886828"><i>Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking</i></a> by Anya von Bremzen <br /><br /></p><p></p><p>Books we are considering: <br /><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781644210161"><i>All Lara’s Wars</i></a> by Wojchiech Jagielski, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones<br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780061253713"><i>Gulag Archipelago</i></a> by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Eric Ericson (there is a unabridged 1800+ pg, and an author approved <a href="https://amzn.to/35xzppZ">abridged </a>version, 400-some pages) <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780156027519"><i>Journey into the Whirlwind</i></a> by Eugenia Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, Max Hayward <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780140186956"><i>Kolyma Tales</i></a> by Varlam Shalamov, translated by John Glad<br /><a href="https://amzn.to/3wY9Rh2"><i>Riot Days</i></a> by Maria Alyokhina<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679723394"><i>Speak, Memory</i></a> by Vladimir Nabokov <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780231198097"><i>The Life Written by Himself</i></a> by Avvakum Petrov <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781545099698"><i>My Childhood</i></a> by Maxim Gorky <i><br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781788312585">Teffi: A Life of Letters and Laughter</a></i> by Edythe Haber <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780375753169"><i>Hope Against Hope</i></a> by Nadezhda Mandelstam, tr. Max Hayward <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781536215526"><i>The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain</i></a> by Eugene Yelchin <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780805082500"><i>Putin's Russia: life in a failing democracy</i></a> by Anna Politkovskaya ; translated by Arch Tait. <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9788184982343"><i>A Russian diary: a journalist's final account of life, corruption, and death in Putin's Russia</i></a> by Anna Politkovskaya <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9785519600958"><i>Notes on Russian Literature</i></a> by F.M. Dostoevsky<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781594206306"><i>The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece</i></a> by Kevin Birmingham <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780143127543"><i>The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses</i></a> by Kevin Birmingham<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374539054"><i>Less than One: Selected Essays</i></a> by Joseph Brodsky <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781734590760"><i>Tolstoy Together</i></a> by Yiyun Li <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781643139494"><i>The Border</i></a> by Erika Fatland <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780763691004"><i>Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad</i></a> by M.T. Anderson <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781555976040"><i>Red Plenty</i></a> by Francis Spufford <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780679751250"><i>Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire</i></a> by David Remnick <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465031474"><i>Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin</i></a> by Timothy Snyder <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465046713"><i>The Last Empire: Final Days of the Soviet Union</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781541675643"><i>The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781541617070"><i>Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393540819"><i>Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780465035908"><i>Man with the Poison Gun: a Cold War Spy Story</i></a> by Serhii Plokhy<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780374528171"><i>Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel</i></a> by Anatoly Kuznetsov, tr. David Floyd <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393357769"><i>Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster</i></a> by Kate Brown <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780190233105"><i>Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters</i></a> by Kate Brown<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780674019492"><i>A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland </i></a>by Kate Brown<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781784782788"><i>October: The Story of the Russian Revolution</i></a> by China Mieville <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781610396004"><i>Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia</i></a> by Peter Pomerantsev <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780253022158"><i>Across the Ussuri Kray</i></a> by Vladimir Arsenyev, translated by Slaght <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590176184"><i>An Armenian Sketchbook</i></a> by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler <br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780307275332"><i>A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army</i></a> by Vasily Grossman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781590173619"><i>The Road</i></a> by Vasily Grossman<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781662601279"><i>Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and Depraved of Chernobyl</i></a> by Markiyan Kamysh <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9780393351873"><i>Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia</i></a> by David Greene <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781616289614"><i>Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine &amp; beyond</i></a> by Olia Hercules<br /> <a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781787134829"><i>Red Sands </i></a> by Caroline Eden<br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781787131316"><i>Black Sea</i></a> by Caroline Eden <br /><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/15371/9781623719555"><i>Tasting Georgia</i></a> by Carla Capalbo<br />&nbsp;<br /><br /> Other mentions:</p><p><a href="https://pen-international.org/news/nobel-laureates-writers-and-artists-worldwide-condemn-russias-invasion-of-ukraine">PEN list of writers against Putin</a><br /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/masha-and-keith-gessen-on-writing-about-russia">New Yorker article about Gessen siblings</a> <br /><a href="http://jennybakes.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgivukkah-report.html">Thanksgivukkah 2013&nbsp;</a> <br />League of Kitchens - <a href="https://www.leagueofkitchens.com/instructors/uzbek-cooking-with-damira ">Uzbek lesson</a><br />League of Kitchens - <a href="https://www.leagueofkitchens.com/cooking-classes/2112 ">Russian lesson</a><br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-masha-gessen.html">Masha Gessen on Ezra Klein podcast, March 2022</a></p><p><br />Related episodes:<br /></p><p><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2016/09/reading-envy-067-rain-and-readability.html">Episode 067</a> - <i>Rain and Readability</i> with Ruth(iella)<i> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2017/04/reading-envy-084-worthy-tangent.html">Episode 084</a> - <i><i>A Worthy Tangent</i> </i>with Bryan Alexander<i><i> <br /></i></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2018/12/reading-envy-138-shared-landscape.html">Episode 138</a> - <i>Shared Landscape</i> with Lauren Weinhold<i> <br /></i><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/01/reading-envy-237-reading-goals-2022.html" target="_blank">Episode 237</a> - Reading Goals 2022<br /><a href="http://readingenvy.blogspot.com/2022/03/reading-envy-243-russian-novel-speed.html">Episode 243</a> - Russian Novel Speed Date&nbsp;</p><p><br />Stalk us online:</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/213993-reading-envy-readers">Reading Envy Readers</a> on Goodreads (home of Reading Envy Russia)<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1291915-lauren">Lauren at Goodreads</a><br /> Lauren is&nbsp;@end.notes on Instagram<br /><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/68030-jenny-reading-envy">Jenny at Goodreads</a><br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/readingenvy">Jenny on Twitter</a><br /> Jenny is&nbsp;@readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy <br /><br /><i>All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. You can see the full collection for <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/reading-envy-russia-2022">Reading Envy Russia 2022 on Bookshop.org</a>.</i> <br /></p>