6 AUGUST 1988, page 11

Stalin's History Lesson

Norman Davies argues that Mr Gorbachev is heir to Stalinist schemes of Russian nationalism POLITICAL legitimacy is derived from different sources in different systems. In......

Making The Red One Green

The Soviet Union is at last Odessa THE usual crowd is at the Soviet Riviera this summer. On the beaches of Odessa, Siberian factory workers are jostling apparatchiks from Moscow......