From the August 2018 Issue Before Oblomov A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada' By Edyta M Bojanowska
From the July 2017 Issue Apetite for Destruction The Russian Revolution: A New History By Sean McMeekin LR
From the October 2016 Issue Setting the Wheels in Motion Lenin on the Train By Catherine Merridale Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917 By Helen Rappaport
From the July 2016 Issue Russia’s Wild East The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars By Daniel Beer LR
From the April 2014 Issue The 23 Steps Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses By Helen Rappaport LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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