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Leon Aron


Leon Aron is the director of Russian studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of, among other works, Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life and Roads to the Temple: Memory, Truth, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution 1987–1991.

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  1. Editor's Pick ·

    A Soviet-Jewish Writer’s Post-Stalin Novel

    Ilya Ehrenburg, “Stalin’s favorite Jew.”

  2. Editor's Pick ·

    Vladimir Putin’s Existential Struggle against the West

    War, and the threat of war, is key to the regime’s legitimacy.

  3. Response ·

    The Putin Anomaly

    By Leon Aron

    In his edifying and heartfelt essay, “ The Prospect for Russia’s Jews ,” Maxim Shrayer raises a number of issues that invite further reflection. I’ll touch on a couple of them. A few years back, at wh...

    The Putin Anomaly
  4. Response ·

    Why Obama Can’t Catch Up with Putin’s Increasingly Bold Moves

    By Leon Aron

    As conscientious chroniclers do, Michael Doran, in his painstaking examination of the Obama administration’s disastrous foreign policy toward Russia, both instructs us and provokes thoughts and ques...

    Why Obama Can’t Catch Up with Putin’s Increasingly Bold Moves
  5. Editor's Pick ·

    The Changing Face of Radical Islam in Russia

    Russian is the third language of Islamic State.

  6. Editor's Pick ·

    Back to Good and Evil

    Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.