“Huw Davies’s translation is a major contribution to the fields of Soviet literary, biographical, and intellectual studies. […] It is a book that will mean many things to many different people...”
– The Russian Review, on my translation of Marietta Chudakova’s biography of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov
This translation is “a long but, nonetheless, absorbing read. It provides rich detail about Mikhail Bulgakov’s life and times, drawing context from diaries, letters and personal accounts.”
– John Cook for ASEES (the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies)
“Perhaps reflective of the turbulence of its period, Heroes of the Nineties is a crazy, eventful, somewhat overwhelming book.”
– J.T., Russia Reviewed