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Higher Serfs

Ronald Hingley Nomenklatura Michael Koslensky (Bodley Head £12.50) M any people know that the USSR is run by and for a powerful Establish- ment. But they often do not know how......

The Man In Studio B-2

Frank Johnson Charles de Gaulle: A Biography Don Cook (Secker and Warburg £15) The French Army and Politics: 1870 - 1970 Alistair Horne (Macmillan £15, £4.95) D e Gaulle was......