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Smart Alec In Moscow

Hugh Joseph CHILDREN OF THE ARBAT by Anatoli Rybakov translated by Harold Shukman Hutchinson, £12.95, pp.685 I t is hard for anyone who has grown up in England, certainly in the......

Pragmatic Sanctions For Abolition

Robert Stewart THE OVERTHROW OF COLONIAL SLAVERY, 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn Verso, £27.95, pp.560 S lavery, in one form or another, is always with us. It took its most brutal......