Rachel Polonsky is a British scholar specializing in Slavic Literature. Her books include ''Molotov's Magic Lantern'' and ''English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance''. She is Vice-President of

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, where she is a Fellow in Slavonic Studies; Graduate Tutor in Modern Languages/ Slavonic Studies (Russian).

Education

*MA in English (Jesus College, University of Cambridge ) *MA Russian Studies (Princeton University ), *D.Phil (Oxford University ) with a thesis on the reception of English literature in early 19th century Russia.

Career

* Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. *Independent scholar and freelance journalist in Moscow *Fellow of Murray Edwards since 2011.

Bibliography

* Polonsky, Rachel. ''Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 ** Translated into Chinese by Chuangchuang Lu as ''Cong Mosike dao Gulage : Eluosi li shi shang de guang hui yu hei an = Molotov's magic lantern : a journey in Russian history'' ** Translated into Italian as ''La lanterna magica di Molotov : viaggio nella storia della Russia'' ** Translated into Dutch by Nico Groen; Marianne Tieleman; Ansfried Scheifes as ''Molotovs toverlantaarn : een reis door de Russische geschiedenis'' ** Translated into Polish by Marek Król; as ''Latarnia magiczna Mołotowa : podróże w historię Rosji'' * Polonsky, Rachel. ''English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance''. Cambridge ngland Cambridge University Press,1998.

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