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The East-West Review -
2009 Spring
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Written by Professor Geoffrey Hosking
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 Suddenly everyone is talking about trust. You can scarcely open the newspaper without seeing the word highlighted: politicians are asking for public trust, so are the police, social workers, schoolteachers and, yes, university teachers. And here is a recent comment by an economic columnist of The Independent, reflecting on Britain’s financial system in the light of Northern Rock and the credit crunch. ‘How does the system work?’ he asks, and he answers...
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The East-West Review -
2009 Spring
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Written by John C Q Roberts
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 For the first decade of my Directorship of the Great Britain-USSR Association its Chairman was Sir John Lawrence, a man with the historian’s feel for the undercurrents in the Soviet world. It had all begun for him in 1942 when he left the BBC European Service to become Press Attaché in Kuibyshev (as Samara was then called) and later in Moscow. Of that period he would later write that Russia had...
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The East-West Review -
2009 Spring
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Written by David Holohan
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 Temirzhan Yerzhanov is a Kazakh and Moscow-trained, prize-winning concert pianist who is about to make his London début at the Wigmore Hall. I went to see him in his new London home to find out more about his life and career to date. He turned out to be a charming, engaging young man, who was very forthcoming about his life in the latter years of the Soviet Union. (Editor.)
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The East-West Review -
2009 Spring
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Written by Professor Brian Murphy
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 Sholokhov had made himself unpopular by pointing out that Daniel and Sinyavsky would have suffered a worse fate if their writings had been traced to them in the 1920s. In the 1960s rumours were revived that Sholokhov had stolen much of Тихий Дон (Quiet Flows the Don) from the memoirs of a White officer. A scholar from Leningrad now took up the case against Sholokhov, alleging that the text of the novel was mainly by some other hand. In Paris she published her findings under the pseudonym ‘D’. Seeing a chance of attacking Sholokhov, Solzhenitsyn led a number of other figures who persistently accused him of plagiarism.
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The East-West Review -
2009 Spring
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Written by David Holohan
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 Как молоды мы были,
Как искренно любили,
Как верили в себя!
How young we were,
How sincerely we loved,
How we believed in ourselves!
(Popular song of 1975)
I have on my desk three memoirs which have moved me profoundly, often to tears, and I would like to recommend them as a ‘must read’ to all our readers. They are Mila & Mervusya: A Russian Wedding, by Mervyn Matthews (1999), Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and War, by Owen Matthews (2008), and Comrade Jim: The Spy who Played for Spartak, by Jim Riordan (2008).
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