Publishers Weekly takes an in-depth look at the memoir of Russian Jewish dissident and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk in a special interview with Howard Lovy:

A true story of Cold War bravery and danger … Polishchuk was an prominent Soviet journalist in the 1960s, yet as a Jew he did not fool himself about his ability to progress in Soviet society. And, as best he could, he tried not to participate in writing what we would now call “fake news.” In secret, he began writing about the brutal Soviet regime…

Read the full review.

Dancing on Thin Ice: Travails of a Russian Dissenter publishes at the end of this month.