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06: Manuscripts, Spies and Mother Russia - Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Lara Prescott
2019-10-24
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Virginia and Louise journey to Russia minus the vodka and discuss a new best-seller set in the Cold War and a stolen manuscript, some Russian novels and the fate of dissidents who speak out against Mother Russia.
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott, 2019
Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Putin, Prisoner of Power, Mischa Glenny, 2019, Audible
Disgraceland, Jake Brennan, true crime and musicians
Newspapers:
New York Times, ‘Oleg Sentsov: Russian by Blood and Language, Ukrainian in Spirit’ by Andrew Higgins, Saturday Profile, 27 September 2019.
Gulag Tourism, https://theculturetrip.com/europe/russia/articles/the-surprising-rise-of-gulag-holidays
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