Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems
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Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems
by Julia Nemirovskaya, editor

This excellent anthology, compiled and edited by Julia Nemirovskaya, showcases poems by Russophone poets who express their total rejection of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Poems in Russian are published side-by-side with their English translations. A riveting perspective on Putin’s war in Ukraine.

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