American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream, by Julia Mickenberg Book of the week: Modern feminism can learn much from the women who visited revolutionary Russia, says Lara Douds By Lara Douds-Cook 11 May
The ‘Russian’ Civil Wars, 1916-1926: Ten Years that Shook the World, by Jonathan D. Smele Lara Douds-Cook welcomes a colourful compendium of overlapping conflicts in a disintegrating and reconfiguring empire By Lara Douds-Cook 7 April