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Conversations About Stalin

Bohdan Nahaylo Stalinism: Its Impact on Russia and the World Edited by G. R. Urban (Maurice Temple Smith £15) 'H istory does not know a despot as brutal and cynical as Stalin......

Ragley

John Martin Robinson One Man's Estate Dennis Barker (Andre Deutsch £9.95) r e late Lord Leicester used to admonish research students wishing to see his estate archives at Holkam......