The break-up of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe by Ghita Ionescu
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
like a newspaper but a book… from 1965
how recently the Nobel Prize meant something
a very good contemporary novel
[insert Nabokov/nobokov joke or something?]
a non-fiction book that suffers from russian round
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