I have to admit that ultimately I know almost nothing about Russia, Russians, and the Russian Revolution. As much as I’ve read of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Checkov and Babel, and other novelists and dramatists, I can never quite understand much about the Russian character (as told in fiction), Russian history (outside of events and facts), and the Soviet Union. There’s a lot of reasons for this. For one, it’s taken me 40 years to really begin to process much about the US and its effects […]