Protest, petroleum, and Putin’s dream of a Russian Arctic
If ever there was a person born to end up in a Russian prison, it was Dima Litvinov. The grandson of one of the most eloquent writers to emerge from Stalin’s gulag, and the adopted son of a dissident, he got his first taste of the Soviet penal system when he was six years old. In 1968, his stepfather was exiled to Siberia. Litvinov joined him there, spending the next several years in a remote mining village.
The family returned to Moscow in 1972 and was soon forced to emigrate to the United States. Here Litvinov grew up, got…
