--- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
> You don't quite get
> the pulpy heroics that Chris included in his
> description though. (It
> actually would probably make a great film....)
It is a really good book. Montefiore goes into it all in great detail, he's a very good writer, he got access to all this great stuff in the archives -- he even interviewed a 109-year-old relative of Stalin's first wife -- and it's very hard-boiled!
Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
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