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Fall 2011

Fall 2011

The Soviet Ghost: Twenty Years After the Collapse

Volume 87, Number 4

Maria P. Vassileva on Chernobyl’s resurrection
Steve Featherstone on loose nukes in Ukraine
Jason Motlagh on the Soviet hangover in Belarus
Dimiter Kenarov on getting arrested by the KGB
Fiction by Alan Heathcock, Kseniya Melnik, and Maggie Shipstead

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Under a Nuclear Cloud

By Ed Ou

Fall 2011

The Soviets detonated hundreds of bombs in Kazakhstan in preparation for a nuclear war that never came.

Editor’s Desk

Back in the USSR

By Ted Genoways, Dimiter Kenarov

Reporting

Dirty Secrets

By Steve Featherstone, Maisie Crow

Under a Nuclear Cloud

By Ed Ou

Dark Days in Belarus

By Jason Motlagh

Essays

The Resurrection

By Maria P. Vassileva, Maisie Crow

The Lovely Sea

By Nadia Shira Cohen, Paulo Siqueira

All That Remains

By Elliott D. Woods

My Life as a Foreign Country

By Brian Turner

A Threat to Public Order

By Dimiter Kenarov, Jason Motlagh

A Monument to Forgetting

By Morgan Meis

Memoir

What is Gone

By Amy Knox Brown, Photography by Mary Anne Andrei

Fiction

The Born Agains

By Alan Heathcock

Closed Fracture

By Kseniya Melnik

La Moretta

By Maggie Shipstead

Poetry

Stones (excerpts)

By Serhij Zhadan

[There was only this joy—]

By Maya Sarishvili

[Before sleep, I remove]

By Maya Sarishvili

Grandmother

By Valzhyna Mort, Translated by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky

curriculum vitae

By Eugenius Alishanka

Vesper Sparrow

By Patrick Phillips

the rats

By Eugenius Alishanka

Three Poems

By Vera Pavlova

[All people are pregnant, said Diotima,]

By Hasso Krull

Voices

By Shamshad Abdulaev, Translated by Valzhyna Mort

[In the room, the roots of things have decayed]

By Maya Sarishvili

the men of my country

By Andriy Bondar

Author Profiles

Jason Motlagh

Jason Motlagh is an award-winning writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

Maria P. Vassileva

Maria P. Vassileva is a graduate student at Harvard. She has published a collection of poetry in Bulgarian, and her translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation. This is her first published essay.