RUSSIA
October 2015
In 1984, Laszlo Solymar (under a pseudonym) predicted the collapse of the USSR. Will today’s Russia suffer the same fate?
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October 2015
Five British writers were in Russia in 1917. Each one had his own story, but all were overwhelmed by the powerful tide of history
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October 2015
The newly-published diaries of Ivan Maisky are an extraordinarily important 21st-century contribution to our understanding of the Second World War
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September 2015
The Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s advocacy of a new Cold War has led him to use the Shoah as a tool of contemporary politics
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