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At The Height Of Our Powers

Robert Taylor THE MID-VICTORIAN GENERATION, 1846-1886 by K. Theodore Hoppen OUP, i3O, pp. 787 T he 'new' Oxford History of England is gathering pace with this magisterial and......

Orders From Moscow

Jonathan Mirsky THE SOVIET WORLD OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson Yale University Press, £25, pp. 416 W hen Josef Stalin......