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Novel of the week
18 June 2001

The Siege

Helen Dunmore Viking, 304pp, £16.99

ISBN 0670897183

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Russia's number one
05 March 2001

The Blue Lantern

Victor Pelevin, translated by Andrew Bromfield Faber and Faber, 178pp, £6.99<

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Secret lives. What is the legacy of Stalinism? A collection of papers from the Soviet archives, and newly translated fiction by the 'banned' Andrei Platonov, offer fresh insight into a time of living dangerously
22 January 2001

Stalinism As a Way of Life: a narrative in documents

Edited by Lewis Siegelbaum and Andrei Sokolov

Politics
Sledge ride to seven heavens of Nenets
04 December 2000

In a remote corner of Siberia, Oliver Ready meets a woman who is conducting an experiment in social

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Under the Soviet skin
23 October 2000

Inside Stalin's Russia: the diaries of Reader Bullard 1930-1934

Edited by Julian and Margaret Bull

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Moscow's mojo
03 July 2000

The Exile: sex, drugs and libel in the new Russia

Mark Ames and Matt Taibbi Grove Press, 256pp

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Back in print
10 January 2000

Her Privates We

Frederic Manning Serpent's Tail, 247pp, £8.99

ISBN 01852427175

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Novel of the week
26 July 1999

Fictions and Lies

Irina Ratushinskaya, translated by Alyona Kozevnikova John Murray, 288pp, £1

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