The city's Museum of Communism is shabby and rather strange, but it should be

Anne Applebaum's magisterial Iron Curtain tells the largely untold story of Eastern Europe's suppression at the hands of the Soviets after the Second World War

Many a British art worthy maintains we all could have been Anthony Blunt. Rubbish: he deserved nothing less than exile in Russia

'Step by step Soviet attitudes had regained the ground they seemed to have lost when the Soviet Union collapsed'