2025 Issue
Harriman Magazine
Editor-in-Chief: Ann Cooper
Editor: Masha Udensiva-Brenner
Editorial Board: Mark Andryczyk, Keith Gessen, Valentina Izmirlieva, Ryan Kreider, Alla Rachkov
Print design by TwoBySixteen
Web design and production by Eileen Huhn
Cover Image: A visitor peers through a gap in the Berlin Wall on the morning of November 10, 1989, the day after the border opened between East and West Berlin. Photo by Tom Stoddart/Getty Images
Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader
This issue of the magazine looks back in time, using the gained wisdom of hindsight to reframe how we see some of the events that culminated in Communism’s collapse in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Read more >>2025 Issue
Features
In Conversation with the Editors
by Ferenc Laczó
by Jeffrey Trimble
by Inga Springe
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
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Harriman Talks
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Fiction
by Mircea Cǎrtǎrescu;
translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter
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Wartime Reflections
by Taylor Zajicek
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
2025 Issue | In Memoriam and In Brief
In Memoriam
by Colleagues from the Department of Slavic Languages
2025 Issue | In Memoriam and In Brief
In Brief
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2025 Issue | Alumni
Where Are They Now?
by Ann Cooper
by Masha Udensiva-Brenner
2025 Issue | Alumni
Alumni Notes
MARS-REERS 2016
MIA 1986; HI Specialization
History 2000; Harriman PepsiCo Fellow, 1999-2000
TC and GSAS 2005; Harriman Certificate 2005
MIA 1988
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