Recent Works Archives

02 Dec

Memories from the time of Stalin

Book Reviews | Russia | Soviet Union

I am reading interviews about Soviet repression, which Russia Memorial (with assistance from Orlando Figes) had gathered. Memorial, controversial in Russia, which Vladimir Putin has now suppressed (the documentation is...

12 Mar

Towards the next novel

On reading War and Peace (Tolstoi), On War (Clausewitz) and War (Sun Tsu) March 15, 2011 In writing my next novel "Wounded," I have been thinking how to create the...

25 Jun

This Web Log is about…

Deception | Publishing | Russia | Soviet Union

The purpose of this web site is to make sense of liars whom I've lived and worked among, against, and for in my life. There are moments when I shake...

08 Sep

Pricipals of deception, or “Rules in a knife fight”

Deception | Soviet Union

You are traversing a large and dark room. Dim bulbs glow and extinguish, here and there, without illumination. There is sound; now loud, now low, its source and direction uncertain,...