Books by Lyuba Vinogradova
Lyuba Vinogradova is a researcher, translator and journalist. In addition to her own books and writing, in 1995, she was introduced to British historian Antony Beevor and helped him research his bestselling book, Stalingrad. Since then she has also worked on many other research projects with English-speaking writers.
A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova
“These are the notes Grossman took while a war correspondent for the army newspaper, the Red Star. They are true first drafts of history – quick descriptions of what was going on around him as he sat in some truck or dugout, waiting for something to happen. He has a wonderful, cinematic eye, describing the look of burned-out villages, roads full of refugees, and so on. And he gets the voices of the soldiers and officers absolutely right. He famously never took notes as he interviewed people, but had such a good memory that in the evening he could go off into a corner and write it all down verbatim.” Read more...
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad
Anna Reid, Journalist
Interviews with Lyuba Vinogradova
Books from the KGB Archives, recommended by Lyuba Vinogradova
The author and academic talks about KGB tricks to get American victims of the Great Depression in Russia to take Soviet citizenship. ‘They had to hand over their American passports temporarily and never saw them again’
Interviews where books by Lyuba Vinogradova were recommended
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Russia at War
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A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova -
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Reflections on the Russian Soul
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Less Than One
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and death. The author of Leningrad, Anna Reid, tells us what really happened there
