Tom Connolly

Book Review: “The Last Tsar”– Last Train to Pskov

March 23, 2025
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Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s towering achievement is to show that, while Nicholas II was betrayed, he lost his throne because he had made it impossible for anyone who loved Russia to be loyal to him.

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Book Review: Lutz Seiler’s Vision of German Reunification, “Star 111” — Dropping Stars Thick as Stones

December 26, 2024
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Lutz Seiler’s novel is part of the post-reunification literature landscape, in this case a brilliant exploration of the personal and political viewed through the consciousness of a pensively bedeviled protagonist.

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