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Stalin, like all murderous total itarian tyrants, was big on secrecy. It’s therefore probably a safe bet to assume that he would not have b...

In 1974, poet and dandy Edward Limonov left the Soviet Union to live in the United States. The bisexual, bespectacled son of a secret police...

The extent to which readers will enjoy Helen Rappaport’s The Romanov Sisters will most likely depend on one or two important factors. Firs...

Nadezhda Mandelstam, widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, once noted a “remarkable feature” common to Soviet leaders: “their boundl...

There are not many comics which feature bloated, castrated opera singers as the lead character. In fact, it’s quite possible that there’...

Perhaps the most famous literary critic of the 20th century, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ( 1902 -1989) was renowned for his vehement loathi...

Last year Uncivilized Books expanded our knowledge of the enigmatic oeuvre of French cartoonist David B. by releasing Incidents in the Ni...