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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

2025 Harriman Magazine Issue Cover

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
Ann Cooper's headshotThis 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 >>

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Features

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Harriman Talks

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Fiction

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Wartime Reflections

2025 Issue | In Memoriam and In Brief

In Memoriam

2025 Issue | In Memoriam and In Brief

In Brief

2025 Issue | Alumni

Where Are They Now?

2025 Issue | Alumni

Alumni Notes

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