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June 2016 Issue Donald Rayfield Philosophers & Murderers Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism By Charles Clover A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West By Luke Harding LR
May 2016 Issue John Gray Romantic Rebel? The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen By Aileen M Kelly LR
June 2015 Issue Robert Service Battle for Europe’s Breadbasket Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia By Dominic Lieven LR
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