Book Review of 'Requiem for Communism' by Charity Scribner in ARTMargins Online

In November 2004, ARTMargins Online released a review of Charity Scribner's 'Requiem for Communism', published by The MIT Press in 2003. This review draws connections to Jutta Scherrer's 1996 essay collection 'Requiem for Red October', which explores the evolution of the Russian intelligentsia from 1986 to 1996. Scherrer, a scholar on Russian studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, chronicled the transition from the promising reforms of perestroika to the eventual collapse of the Soviet regime. The review was written by Hans J. Rindisbacher and Larissa Rudova, both from Claremont. Scribner's book spans 245 pages and was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while Scherrer's essays were released by Universitätsverlag in Leipzig, Germany.