Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
 

Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million

by Martin Amis

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 through the world, both captivating it and staining it red. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of... (read more)

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jinglebell
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I do not intend to applaud for any dictator. However, the miracle of successful industrialization of agricultural old Russia under Stalin's leadership is something more interesting. I wish I can find a good book about him in that particular respect. I am also aware that it is not easy to have such books in the Western world. More or less, we are all born being bias. His daughter's memoir is a book that I am trying to find.

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