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Hunger Dreams in the USSR
By Gary Saul MorsonA newly translated memoir of the gulag should (but probably won't) remind those who still flirt with Communism what exactly they're endorsing.
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Yuri Slezkine’s Undiscriminating Eye
By Andrew KossHow a much-lauded historian with a genius for identifying similarities—but no eye for differences—misreads Jewish history.
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“Next Year in Birobidzhan!”
By Walter LaqueurIn 1928, a "Jewish autonomous region" was set up in the far east to provide a home for Soviet Jewry. But, as a new book describes, it was no solution at all.
