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Not Nice, But Not Quite As Nasty As Painted

Simon Hoffer KHRUSHCHEV: THE MAN AND HIS ERA by William Taubman Free Press, £25, pp. 876 ISBN 0743231651 1 t will always be hard to understand the mental illness that was Soviet......

Dim Men And Desperate Women

John de Fa!be THE LUCKY ONES by Rachel Cusk 4th Estate, £15.99, pp. 228, ISBN 1857029127 I began to change my opinion of this book about 50 pages from the end. Until then I had......