Author

Maria Lipman

MARIA LIPMAN is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies of the George Washington University and Co-Editor of the Institute’s newly launched website Russia.Post.

By this author

Two Books on Nazi Germany’s Invasion of the Soviet Union

Jochen Hellbeck; Richard Hargreaves

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review March/April 2026

The Rise of the Russian Hawks: Ideology and Politics From the Late Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia

Juliette Faure

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review March/April 2026

Imperfect Equilibrium: Civil-Military Relations in Russian Defense Policymaking

Kirill Shamiev

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review March/April 2026

Excessive Loyalism in Putin’s Authoritarian Regime: The Costs of Sycophancy

Alexander Libman

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review March/April 2026

Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War

Stephan Kieninger

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2026

Russia Starts Here: Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire

Howard Amos

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2026

Perfect Storm: Russia’s Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future

Thane Gustafson

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2026

Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations

David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, and Victoria I. Zhuravleva

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2026

Borders in Red: Managing Diversity in the Early Soviet Union

Stephan Rindlisbacher

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2026

The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

Gordon Corera

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Nov/Dec 2025

The Spirit of Socialism: Culture and Belief at the Soviet Collapse

Joseph Kellner

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Nov/Dec 2025

The Death of Stalin

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Nov/Dec 2025

Odyssey Moscow: One American’s Journey From Russia Optimist to Prisoner of the State

Michael Calvey

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Nov/Dec 2025

Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine

Serhiy Kudelia

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Sept/Oct 2025

Russia’s World Order: How Civilizationism Explains the Conflict With the West

Paul Robinson

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Sept/Oct 2025

Cultural Capitalism: Literature and the Market After Socialism

Bradley A. Gorski

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Sept/Oct 2025

Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919–1939

Samuel J. Hirst

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Sept/Oct 2025

A Time to Sow: Refusenik Life in Leningrad, 1979–1989

Michael Beizer and Ann Komaromi

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Sept/Oct 2025

The Limits of Putin’s Balancing Act

What the Kremlin Will Sacrifice in Pursuit of Victory in Ukraine

Michael Kimmage and Maria Lipman

July 16, 2025

Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

Eugene Finkel

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review May/June 2025

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals

Maurice J. Casey

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review May/June 2025

Goodbye to Russia: A Personal Reckoning From the Ruins of War

Sarah Rainsford

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review May/June 2025

For Russia With Hitler: White Russian Émigrés and the German-Soviet War 

Oleg Beyda

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review May/June 2025

Ashes of Our Fathers: Inside the Fall of Nagorno-Karabakh

Gabriel Gavin

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review May/June 2025

Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia

Charles Hecker

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Mar/Apr 2025

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West

Shaun Walker

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Mar/Apr 2025

Lost Souls: Soviet Displaced Persons and the Birth of the Cold War

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Mar/Apr 2025

Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule

Michael David-Fox

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Mar/Apr 2025

Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell, and the Birth of Modern Warfare

Gregory Carleton

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Mar/Apr 2025

Unstuck in Time: On the Post-Soviet Uncanny

Eliot Borenstein

Reviewed by Maria Lipman

Review Jan/Feb 2025