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Courtiers And Communists

Philip Mansel STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR by Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicholson, £25.00, pp. 693 ISBN 1842127268 C ourts can be a tool for understanding the......

For The Union Dead

Grey Gowrie COLLECTED POEMS by Robert Lowell, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter Faber and Faber, £40.00, pp. 1,186 ISBN 0571163408 cw hen I die,' Robert Lowell told me,......