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Book awards for Easter
Professor of Political Science Gerald Easter has won two awards for his book, Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, which examines divergent approaches to taxation among former East Bloc...
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more on Leaving Russia
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, the new memoir from Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, “poignantly captures [the] double life of [a] refusenik,” according to a review in the Jewish...
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Review of Golinkin’s forthcoming book
Coming this fall is a memoir by Boston College alumnus Lev Golinkin titled A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (Doubleday, 2014). Golinkin writes about his Jewish family fleeing the Soviet...
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Escape from the Soviet Union
Boston College alumnus Lev Golinkin has published A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (Doubleday, 2014), about his Jewish family fleeing the Soviet Union in the waning years of the Cold War,...
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Book review: Golinkin’s memoir
A Commonweal magazine review of A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka (Doubleday, 2014) by Boston College alumnus Lev Golinkin draws comparisons to another memoir about a Jewish family fleeing...
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Waiting for America in Italian
Two chapters from BC Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer‘s memoir of emigration, Waiting for America, have appeared in Italian translation in a special issue of the...
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A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka
Alumnus Lev Golinkin will discuss his memoir, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, at BC on January 27 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Golinkin came to the US as a child refugee from the...
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Cold War espionage
Alumnus Bill Plunkert, a former CIA agent featured in the book The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal (Penguin Random House, 2015) by Pulitzer Prize winner David E....
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Moscow memories
Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer, who came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1987, recalls a spring day in Moscow more than 30 years ago, a friendship, and...
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Leaving Russia
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, a memoir by Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim D. Shrayer has been released in a paperback edition. The first English-language, autobiographical and...
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Post-Soviet crime fiction
Alexei Bayer, a Russian-born economist, fiction writer, and translator, will present “Post-Soviet Crime Fiction: A Genre in Search of Identity” on Mar. 29 at 5:30 p.m. in Stokes Hall, South, Room S209....
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Golinkin at First Year Academic Convocation
Alumnus Lev Golinkin, author of the memoir A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, will be the keynote speaker at First Year Academic Convocation on Sept. 7, at 7 p.m., in Conte Forum....
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Selvinsky’s “The Trial in Krasnodar”
Seventy-seven years ago this month, a landmark court case on Nazi war crimes began in the Russian city of Krasnodar. Author and Boston College Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Maxim...
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How Königsberg Became Kaliningrad
German Blood, Slavic Soil (Cornell University Press, 2023), a new book by Boston College Associate Professor of History Nicole Eaton, reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, 20th-century...
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