HISTORY: When we dead awaken*

British novelist Martin Amis has written a short history of Communist rule in Russia from the Revolution until Stalin’s death in 1953. Max Teichmann here reviews Koba the Dread (Random House), a book which not only examines the mindless brutality of the regime, but asks questions of the Western intelligentsia, members of which acted as willing apologists.Martin Amis, known only to most of us as a novelist, has produced, within the covers of one volume, what are really two books: one retelling th…

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