Cathy McAteer is a European Research Council-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter, UK. Her monograph Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (2021) is available in Gold Open Access.

This is an impressive, thoroughly documented, highly readable study of eight women who collectively dedicated decades to bridging the literary, cultural, and political gap between the USSR, the UK, and the United States across the twentieth century … this book is a valuable, even pioneering, addition to the sum of knowledge on translator history from below.

• List of FIguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Out of the Fire: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the UK2. Desperately Seeking Socialism: Ideological British Émigrées in the USSR3. Shifting Ideologies: Translation in Testing Times4. A Different Ideology: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the USConclusion: From Cold War Women to TodayBibligographyIndex

Cathy McAteer is a European Research Council-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter, UK. Her monograph Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (2021) is available in Gold Open Access.

This is an impressive, thoroughly documented, highly readable study of eight women who collectively dedicated decades to bridging the literary, cultural, and political gap between the USSR, the UK, and the United States across the twentieth century … this book is a valuable, even pioneering, addition to the sum of knowledge on translator history from below.

• List of FIguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Out of the Fire: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the UK2. Desperately Seeking Socialism: Ideological British Émigrées in the USSR3. Shifting Ideologies: Translation in Testing Times4. A Different Ideology: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the USConclusion: From Cold War Women to TodayBibligographyIndex

Cathy McAteer is a European Research Council-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Exeter, UK. Her monograph Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (2021) is available in Gold Open Access.

This is an impressive, thoroughly documented, highly readable study of eight women who collectively dedicated decades to bridging the literary, cultural, and political gap between the USSR, the UK, and the United States across the twentieth century … this book is a valuable, even pioneering, addition to the sum of knowledge on translator history from below.

• List of FIguresAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Out of the Fire: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the UK2. Desperately Seeking Socialism: Ideological British Émigrées in the USSR3. Shifting Ideologies: Translation in Testing Times4. A Different Ideology: Russophone Émigrée Translator-Mediators to the USConclusion: From Cold War Women to TodayBibligographyIndex