Azhgikhina Nadezda, vanden Heuvel Katrina.
Hope springs eternal. – М.: Serebrianye niti, 2025. – 269 p. : il.
ISBN 978-5-89163-401-5
The book is a deeply personal look at the Gorbachev era, the realities of glasnost, the role of US-Russian women's dialogues, and squandered historical alternatives. The book features interviews, articles, and never before seen photographs. It is designed not only to address history, hope and memory but to instigate those features–through a new book based on more than three decades of conversation between The Nation Editor and Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel and PEN Moscow director and journalist Nadezda Azhgikhina. It is a spirited dialogue between two journalists, writers and feminists who met in Moscow during the early days of glasnost – and it reveals how their dialogue has continued for more than three decades. Azhgikina and vanden Heuvel focus on several key points of the Gorbachev era, including the emerging – and contested freedom of expression, the role of independent media, the centrality of history and memory in glasnost, the politics and journalism of De-stalinization, key controversies of the de-democra¬tization and turbulence of the 1990s, the emergence of an independent women's movement in Russia and its ties to the US women’s and global women’s movement.
The key idea of the book is an abiding belief in the crucial role of a people's dialogue – in this case, of Americans and Russians. One compelling example of that is the Russian – American women's magazine VYi i Myi (1992–2003), in addition, The Nation InterNation media project, Second Track civil society activities, and others.
