Hints and tips:
...One good read Russia scholar and Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin in conversation with David Remnick....
...Best of the rest The Week Trump Won — David Brooks in the New York Times How Brexit has made Britain the new sick man of Europe — George Eaton in the New Statesman The Coming Russia Bombshells — Kimberley...
...David J Bentley, Oldham, Greater Mancs Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill On the face of it, this is a story of marriage and motherhood in modern America....
...… Stalin, Volume 1: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin, Allen Lane, RRP£30/ Penguin Press, RRP$40 Kotkin’s 1995 Magnetic Mountain, a path-breaking account of crash Soviet industrialisation...
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