"Costamagna fills his lushly entertaining book with a delicious variety of anecdotes ... As an insider, Costamagna has much to convey to the public and even experts."
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“Sergei Lebedev is a marvelous writer with two rare gifts: a nobility of style and the most precise inner vision, which allows him to see and plumb the entire depth of the anthropological catastrophe that occurred in twentieth-century Russia. Lebedev has perceived what was invisible to most Soviet and post-Soviet writers.”
Vladimir Sorokin, author of The Blizzard, Day of the Oprichnik and Ice Trilogy