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“She is one of the greatest writers of our age. This is an early work, recording and retelling the stories of elderly Soviet citizens about the days in the Second World War when the war reached their villages. Children’s memories of hell being unleashed. It is the most beautiful, brilliant, heartbreakingly sad book I have ever read.” Read more...
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Molotov’s Magic Lantern
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A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Reagan and Gorbachev
by Jack Matlock -
Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler
