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Tibor Szamuely Maxim Gorky

Untimely Thoughts Maxim Gorky (Garnstone Press £2.25) When I was first taken before my interrogator in Lubyanka prison, just over twenty years ago, he began with an ominous......

Dermot Fenlon On The Stability Of Venice

Rich and Poor in Renaissance Venice Brian Pullan (Blackwell £6.50) By the close of the sixteenth century the freedom of Venice from popular disturbance was becoming a subject of......