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Explosion of Talent

The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia

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Brezhnev: The Making of a Statesman

By Susanne Schattenberg (Translated from German by John Heath)

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Donald Rayfield

The Eternal Husband

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By Alex Christofi

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Claus von Bulow

A Botched Job

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

By Edvard Radzinsky

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Adrian Nathan West

Freedom Regained

Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski

By Eric Karpeles

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The Woman Behind the Wheel

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Christopher Andrew

The Spy Who Loved Himself

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Alexander Maitland

From Yorkshire to Yalutorovsk

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She Had Sweets Named After Her

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Xan Smiley

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By Conor O’Clery

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Robert Service

The Last Comrade

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By William Taubman

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Beryl Bainbridge

Not Too Bad

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By Brian Moynahan

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March 2017 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

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By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

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The Monk behind the Myth

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Nikolai Tolstoy

A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins

Anton Chekhov: A Life

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

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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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Paul Taylor

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By Brian Boyd

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May 2016 Issue

John Gray

Romantic Rebel?

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

By Aileen M Kelly

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