Series: Glas New Russian Writing, Volume 18 In this issue: Asar Eppel Red Caviar Sandwiches, Semyon's Lonely Soul, One Warm Dark Night, Two Tobits, July, Inasmuch and Insofar As, Sorry Lot, You're My Second, Sitting in the Dark on bentwood Chairs. Asar Eppel is a past master of the subtle detail and the bon mot. His minute descriptions of everyday life make you either burst out laughing or...

In this issue: Alexander Genis Literary Nonfiction by A. Genis, The View from the Window, Red Bread, USA from A to Y, Brodsky in New York, Darkness and Silence: The Art of Subtraction. These literary pieces by one of Russia's foremost essayists reflect the author's bi-culturalism - Russian and American civilizations are compared in their various manifestations. Genis is a shrewd and observant...

The book is dedicated to examining the problems around the development of Soviet political culture in the after war years. The author looks at this development specifically through the MVD and the development of Soviet patriotism.