Contents

CONTENTS OF EAST–WEST REVIEW ISSUE 70
Spring-Summer 2026 (48 pages)

FEATURES

Charlie Mackenzie Portlock
The Eternal Flame: Memory and hope in Armenia

Philip A Corsano-Leopizzi
Why Europe Must Decouple from Russian Energy

Anthony Lipmann
Kazakhstan’s dark mining past revisited

Sarah Fainberg
From Red Square to Trafalgar Square

Barbara Emerson
King Leopold I and Russia

Anastasia Shteinert
The Haunted Empire

Melanie Mauthner
Haibun: The Wooden Chapel

Andrew Sheppard
Driving the Bush – Vodinnya Kusta

BOOK REVIEWS

Michael Pursglove
Anton-the-Hapless
by Dmitry Grigorovich (tr. Michael R Katz)

Kate Pursglove
The Disappearing Act
by Maria Stepanova (tr. Sasha Dugdale)

Cultivating Diamonds
by Ihor Pavlyuk (tr. Matvii Smirnov)

Charlie Mackenzie Portlock
I Love Russia: Reporting from a lost country
by Elena Kostyuchenko

Andrew Sheppard
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945
by Kathleen Harriman (Ed. Geoffrey Roberts)

The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Edited and Introduced by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Barbara Emerson
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia:
From revolution to autocracy
by Julia Ioffe

THEATRE REVIEW

Jennifer Antill
Summerfolk by Maxim Gorky
(a new version by Nina Raine and Moses Raine)
Olivier Theatre, National Theatre
17th March – 29th April 2026