Features June 2022
Stalin: his own avatar
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On Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books by Geoffrey Roberts.
Topic: “Russian History”
Features February 2022
Kropotkin’s dead goose
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On the limitations of anarchist thought.
Books January 2022
Russian bear market
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Apr 12, 2019
Trotsky on ice
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On lunch with Trotsky’s murder weapon at the new International Spy Museum.
Features March 2019
The greatest of all novels
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On Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Art March 2019
Exhibition note
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On “Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs” at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Aug 21, 2018
Socialism as a hate crime
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On the human cost of a persistent and pernicious political doctrine.
Jul 18, 2018
Boris? He was good enough
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On a new production of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera.
Features November 2017
Stalin’s ism
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A review of Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin.
Features October 2017
Solzhenitsyn’s cathedrals
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On the literary works of the Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.