Andrew D. Kaufman

Andrew D. Kaufman, Russian literature scholar at the University of Virginia, is the author of Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Troubled Times is being published this month by Simon & Schuster.

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On the occasion of the Nobel Prize in Literature being awarded to Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich, here’s an annotated list of the cream of Russian literature.

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If Putin preferred Tolstoy over Dostoevsky, what a happier, more peaceful place Ukraine would be right now.

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