1947
Where Now Begins
Elisabeth Asbrink
Translated by Fiona Graham
Other Press
280 pages; $25.95
MISCHKA’S WAR
A Story of Survival From War-Torn Europe to New York
Sheila Fitzpatrick
I.B. Tauris
313 pages; $29.50
WHAT YOU DID NOT TELL
A Russian Past and the Journey Home
Mark Mazower
Other Press
379 pages; $25.95
The Swedish journalist Elisabeth Asbrink’s 1947 is an extraordinary achievement. Careening around Europe and the Middle East as well as South Asia and the United States through a singular year, she deliberately juxtaposes the intimate and the ephemeral with immensely consequential political and diplomatic developments. New inventions like the Soviet engineer Mikhail Kalashnikov’s assault rifle, the French couturier Christian Dior’s resplendent New Look, the
