Lesley Chamberlain
Novelist, historian, and commentator whose work spans nonfiction and fiction; author of the novel The Mozhaisk Road (Austin Macauley, 2025), which explores Soviet-era dissidents, apparatchiks, and Russian culture.
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Jan 25, 2026 • 1h 2min
Lesley Chamberlain, "The Mozhaisk Road" (Austin Macauley, 2025)
Lesley Chamberlain, novelist and historian who has long studied Russia, discusses her new novel The Mozhaisk Road. She traces 1978 Moscow through dissidents, invented apparatchiks, and Western reporters. Short scenes explore rumors of collapse, private political talk, and symbolic acts like a bulldozed outdoor art show. The conversation evokes nostalgia for Moscow’s cultural contradictions.
