New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies


Charles King, “Odessa: Genius and Death in the City of Dreams”

August 22, 2011

“Look up the street or down the street, this way or that way, we only saw America,†wrote Mark Twain to capture his visit to Odessa in 1867. In a way, it’s not too farfetched that Twain saw his homeland in the Black Sea port city. Odessa was very m