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Albert Baiburin, "The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR" (Polity Press, 2022)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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How Did You Come to Translate Doctor Gavalgo?

From the time i was a small boy, i fascinated by things russian. And this book really brings this out righty,. i like the way that you us to keep these these original terms in and an contextalize them as well. I mean, it's, ya, i think that's, that's superinteresting. And i guess it would have a different residence for a russian speaker than it does for me. But maybe first er, what we could talk about is how you came to be translating this book in the first place. Maybe you could sort of walked us through that a bit and how you came  and i know you translated another book recently, and i

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