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The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

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The Monk behind the Myth

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A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Behind Every Great Book…

Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago

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A N Wilson

He Dared to Tell Them their History, Now Forgotten

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life

By D M Thomas

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John Gray

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The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

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Christopher Hitchens

Three Theories

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By Arkady Shevchenko

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Terry Eagleton

Janus-Faced Genius

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By Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist

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Donald Rayfield

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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva

By Rosemary Sullivan

July 2003 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Midwife to Genius

Furious Vissarion: Belinski's Struggle for Literature, Love and Ideas

By Richard Freeborn

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March 2004 Issue

Mark Almond

Moscow’s Media Mogul

The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Müzenberg, Moscow's Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West

By Sean McMeekin

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