Stalin's Nose: Travels Around the Bloc

by Rory Maclean

Release Date: February, 1993

Edition: Hardcover

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Fascinated,bothered, bewildered, so far...

About a third of the way into the book which I began reading during an IVP test for distraction purposes. I am feeling more confused as I go but largely because my historical and geographic knowledge of the region is very limited. I think this is good for me to know(in a hair shirt sort of way). I've read novels set (approximately)in the region and have begun to feel as though I have strayed back into one of them but behind the scenes, drifting through the background unconnected to the story of the novel. However I will continue reading. I am in its thrall, though mystified and chastened by my ignorance.