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A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience . Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief systems of the 20th century — one that spread... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Stalin: Add a description of this character.
- Lenin
- Solzhenitsyn
- Trotsky
- Maxim Gorky
- Hitler
- Nabokov
- Dmitri Volkogonov
- Khrushchev
- Ivan
- Kamenev
- Edmund Wilson
- Yakov
- Kirov
- Tibor Szamuely
- Sally
- Svetlana
- Vasily Grossman
- Christopher
- Nadezhda Mandelstam
- Zinoviev
- Marx
- Beria
- Tucker
- Eugenia Ginzburg
- Kingsley
- Chernyshevsky
- Yagoda
- Churchill
- Shalamov
- James
- Nikolaenko
- Krupskaya
- Koba
- Zhukov
- Nikolayev
- Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
First Sentence edit
Here is the second sentence of Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine: We may perhaps put this in perspective in the present case by saying that in the actions here recorded about twenty human lives were lost for, not every word, but every letter, in this book.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Martin Amis (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 947.0842
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