Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead Books, 2012), 304 pages, US$27.95 David Satter, It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway (Yale University Press, 2011), 400 pages, US$29.95 In December 1564, Ivan IV took himself off into exile. From the remoteness of Aleksandrova Sloboda […]
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