Ashwin, Sarah, review of Tatyana Mamonova, Russian Women's Studies: Essays on Sexism in Soviet Culture, in Slavonic and East European Review, 69.4 (1991), pp. 714–15, doi:10.2307/4210787

Ashwin, Sarah, review of Keith Sword, The Times Guide to Eastern Europe. The Changing Face of the Warsaw Pact: A Comprehensive Handbook, in Slavonic and East European Review, 70.1 (1992), pp. 193–94, doi:10.2307/4210917

Ashwin, Sarah, review of Deborah Adelman, The 'Children of Perestroika'. Moscow Teenagers Talk about Their Lives and the Future, in Slavonic and East European Review, 70.3 (1992), p. 582, doi:10.2307/4211068

Ashwin, Sarah, review of Chandran Kukathas, David Lovell, William Maley, The Transition from Socialism: State and Civil Society in Gorbachev's USSR, in Slavonic and East European Review, 71.1 (1993), pp. 186–87, doi:10.2307/4211199

Ashwin, Sarah, ‘Women and the Transition from Communism: Between a Rock and a Hard Place’, in Slavonic and East European Review, 71.4 (1993), pp. 712–16, doi:10.2307/4211384