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Bears in the Caviar is a hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was "present at the creation" of US-Soviet relations. Charles Thayer headed off to Russia in 1933, calculating that if he could just learn Russian and be on the spot when the US and USSR established relations, he could make himself indispensable...
The murder of a poet is always more than a murder. When a famous writer is brutally stabbed on the campus of Moscow's Lumumba University, the son of a recently deposed African president confesses, and the case assumes political implications that no one wants any part of.
Peace! Land! Bread! This was the battle cry of the 1917 October Revolution (old calendar) that would change the history of Russia and affect the entire world. Since the time of Ivan the Terrible, the Tsars concentrated on centralization of their power and control. The most common way of doing this was to take...