This year, former student Michelle Olson and Alexei collaborated on a translation project for the “Reader of Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture,” which will be published by Academic Studies Press in 2013. He was invited to the Tolstoy International Conference at Yasnaya Polyana (Tolstoy’s estate and now a national preserve and museum) where he presented a paper on the peasant nightmares in Anna Karenina. Alexei also participated in a fascinating conference on “Russia: 20 Years after the Collapse of Communism” at Beloit College. His presentation was on Eduard Limonov, the writer and the leader of the Other Russia party.