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Dam and blast Engineers of the Soul: in the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers Frank Westerman Harvill Seeker, 320pp, £14.99 Nearly 20 years after its collapse, even those of us who witnessed the old Soviet Union at first hand can't help marvelling at the scale of its absurdity. [...] as Westerman found out, Paustovsky never visited the site, now in independent Turkmenistan.
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Dam and Blast
Dam and blast Engineers of the Soul: in the Footsteps of Stalin's Writers Frank Westerman Harvill Seeker, 320pp, £14.99
Nearly 20 years after its collapse, even those of us who witnessed the old Soviet Union at first hand can...See the full content of this document
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