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Showing posts with label Orlando Figes Just Send Me Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orlando Figes Just Send Me Word. Show all posts
Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Review: Andrea Gullotta, Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930

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At his 1926 trial, the fascist prosecutor of Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Italian Communist party, famously declared “For twenty ye...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Review: Svetlana Alexievich, Second-Hand Time

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It’s often said that in Russia human life has never been valued. Ever since the Romanovs installed themselves back in 1613, human bei...
Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Review: Fyodor Vasilevich Mochulsky, Gulag Boss

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In 1940, aged 22, Fyodor Mochulsky, candidate member of the Communist Party, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Railroad Transport Engin...
Friday, 10 August 2012

Review: Orlando Figes, Just Send me Word

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The backbone of this book is provided by long extracts from correspondence between Lev Mischenko (1917 - 2008) and Svetlana Ivanov (1917 - 2...
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