From the November 2018 Issue Orphans of the USSR The Shoemaker and His Daughter: One Ordinary Family’s Remarkable Journey from Stalin’s Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia By Conor O’Clery LR
From the November 2017 Issue Mission Statements Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat By Christopher Mallaby LR
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