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Molotov's Magic Lantern A Journey in Russian History

Hardcover • 2010 • English

Molotov's Magic Lantern A Journey in Russian History

By Rachel Polonsky

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

A writer explores a country and its culture in a luminous, original and unforgettable book.In the 1990s Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow with her family, and began a journey of discovery into a country she thought she knew well. She lived in an apartment block on Romanov Street that had, in Tsarist and Soviet times, been a residence of the elite; and one of those ghostly neighbours was Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin’s henchman and arch survivor of that ferocious regime. (Marshal Budenny, hero ...Show more

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ISBN

9780571237807

Publisher

Faber

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

Molotov's Magic Lantern A Journey in Russian History

Format

Hardcover

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