Orlando Figes

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World Affairs

Vlad the Great

  • 29 November 2007
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Putin has dismantled the fragile democracy of the 1990s, but has never been more popular. The New Statesman's special focus on Russia, its politics, culture and society with Lilia Shevtsova, Artemy Troitsky, Robin Strummer and more

Culture

The rite of return

  • 14 October 2002

Pushkin's poetry, Tolstoy's novels, Stravinsky's music - Russia's golden age gave the people the spirit to endure the darkest moments of their history. Orlando Figes on the triumph of culture over politics

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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