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In the East, and in practically all of the countries where communists had taken power, the principal problem of political leadership was not the “withering away of the state apparatus” but how to avoid the danger of colonial or neocolonial
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For anyone remotely interested and versed in Russian literature, history and culture. Love Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova, Nabokov? ...more
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