Catherine Merridale

is professor of history at Queen Mary, University of London and member of the Eurozine advisory board.

Articles

Forget marrying a rich American: for the Russian middle-class woman, a better life means aerobics and Benetton. Foreigners may bewail the power of international capital, but elegance and the money with which to purchase it were precisely what was not available under dull utilitarian communism.

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