Robin Ashenden

Robin Ashenden is former editor and founder of the Central and East European London Review.

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Red Letter Day

How an unknown teacher from Leningrad took on Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev—and ultimately won.

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Robin Ashenden
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Lydia and the Vlads

An Estonian’s changing relationship with Russia.

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Robin Ashenden
11 min read

Boris Beheaded

From restoration to regicide.

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Robin Ashenden
8 min read

Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment?

The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.

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Robin Ashenden
11 min read

Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s

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Robin Ashenden
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The Enduring Relevance of Czesław Miłosz’s ‘The Captive Mind’

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Robin Ashenden
10 min read

Under the Frog: Why Tibor Fischer’s 1992 Booker-Nominated Novel May Have Found its Moment

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Robin Ashenden
10 min read

Bernard Rose's Forgotten Tolstoy Trilogy

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Robin Ashenden
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