The John Glad Interviews-Conversations with Russian Writers

In the early 1980's John Glad who was then working at the Kennan Institute in Washington D.C. recorded a series of videotaped interviews with leading Russian writers. Some of those interviews were subsequently published in Russian as Besedy v izgnanii : russkoe literaturnoe zarubezh'e. An English translation of some of the interviews English translations done by Richard and Joanna Robin can also be found in John Glad, Conversations in exile: Russian writers abroad. The original video recordings were deposited with the University of Maryland. Professor Glad himself retained his own copies and at different times and places he exhibited them to interested audiences.

In the spring of 2007 Professor Glad made his copies of the tapes available to me for digitization. What follows is a list of the interviewees with links to the actual recordings that have been restored in so far as possible.