Darvin Babiuk: 18 books

In the 1980s, when I was studying for my Masters degree in Soviet History, one of my mentors intrigued me with a story of one of his past students managing to improbably reach the putative and later reviled saviour of the 1917 Russian Revolution, Alexander Kerensky, on the phone. Through the years,...

Anatoli Molotov has been internally exiled to Siberia for alleged crimes committed while serving as a Soviet diplomat at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the mid 1950s. Landing “softly” in the gulag administrative town of Koriak, he is assigned to a mid-management government position,...

A collection of short stories dealing with Japan.

Internal collapse and a succession of varying Russian governments in 1917 necessitated the need for British policy makers to re-evaluate their attitudes toward Russia. It is well-known that this ultimately evolved into hostility towards Bolshevism. What is not so evident is how this decision was arrived...