Is there any 20th century political regime, besides Nazi Germany, that has been as endlessly chronicled as Soviet Russia? Every year seems to bring fresh biographies of Stalin or Lenin, new litanies of terror, ineptitude, and economic disaster. The USSR’s literary footprint is greater even than that of the Third Reich. Whose high school or college didn’t require a reading of 1984, Animal Farm, Darkness at Noon, or A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?
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