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On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’

On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’

Journalist Katya Cengel's memoir, From Chernobyl with Love, is more illuminating of the American mindset than it is of Latvia and Ukraine.

Motherhood and Soviet Life in Nora Ikstena’s Latvian Novel, ‘Soviet Milk’

Motherhood and Soviet Life in Nora Ikstena’s Latvian Novel, ‘Soviet Milk’

Nora Ikstena's autofictional history, Soviet Milk, exposes the violence of the Soviet institutionalization of motherhood as a civic duty that was incorporated into the ideological and social structure of Soviet life.

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