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A Strange Reluctance To Be Free

Philip Longworth R USSIAN C ONSERVATISM AND I TS C RITICS : A S TUDY IN P OLITICAL C ULTURE by Richard Pipes Yale, £17.95, pp. 216, ISBN 9780300112882 ✆ £14.36 (plus £2.45 p&p)......

Keeping The Outsiders At Bay

Harriet Sergeant T HE G REAT W ALL : C HINA A GAINST THE W ORLD , 1000 BC-AD 2000 by Julia Lovell Atlantic, £19.99, pp. 412, ISBN 1843542129 ✆ £15.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429......