Rachel Polonsky is a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Molotov’s Magic Lantern: a Journey in Russian History (Telegraph Books) and has published essays for Prospect Magazine and the Times Literary Supplement.
‘Alexander Ivanovich woke at six, the hour when radio broadcasting would normally have begun, but the radio had been silent for a month now.’
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