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Sign up to receive these approx. monthly bulletins by email. Latest bulletin: November 2019 Earlier bulletins are in the Archive The most recent issue of our magazine can be downloaded as a pdf here: The FORUM, no. 40, Winter 2019 PLEASE SEND ANY IDEAS FOR ARTICLES ETC FOR THE NEXT ISSUE OF "FORUM" DIRECTLY TO THE EDITOR, SHEILA SIM AT sheilasim2@googlemail.com
Issue 40, Winter 2019
publ. January 2019 Contents Front cover: Pussy Riot's Riot Days concert at Summerhall. Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2018. Photographed by Jacinta Oaten. p1 Editorial p2 SRF news p3 Tatyana Jakovskaya, The Youth that Knew p5 Bryan Alexander, Revisiting a Nenets Family p7 Dairmid Gunn, A Cold War visit to Borodino Battlefield p8 Book reviews: · Portraits without Frames by Lev Ozerov. Reviewed by Peter France · The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Reviewed by Natasha Perova · Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and media from Gorbachev to Putin by Daphne Skillen. Reviewed by Martin Dewhirst. · Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki by Andrea Gullotta. Reviewed by Mark Vincent · Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World And How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough. Reviewed by Lindsay Mackenzie · Slav Sisters (The Dedalus Book of Russian Women’s Literature) edited by Natasha Perova. Reviewed by Margaret Tejerizo · СТУПЕНЬКА-1 Russian as a foreign language for kids. Pupil's book and Activity book by Natalia Gulamova. Reviewed by Marta Tomaszewski Back page: How can we further the aims of the SRF? Previous issues are in the Archive.
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