From the December 2023 Issue Feeding the Great Bear What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork By Witold Szabłowski (Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) LR
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From the November 2019 Issue Sultan on Speed Dial Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey By Hannah Lucinda Smith
From the December 2017 Issue Forces in a Vacuum Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin By Serhii Plokhy The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen LR
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