The Nation21d
The Often Misunderstood History of the Soviet Dissidents
The son of the famous lyric poet Sergei Esenin (who committed suicide in 1925), the unkempt Volpin—the unhyphenated name on his passport, as he was born out of wedlock—was an outspoken ...
The Forward22d
As a new Trump administration begins, I’m looking to this Soviet Jewish dissident for guidance
As I listened to President Donald Trump’s inauguration speech Monday, I thought about Alexander Esenin-Volpin. It had been a morning of Trump updates that weren’t just upsetting, but also ...