Inside the Stalin Archives rave review in the New York Times Book Review

"Brent’s engaging memoir, 'Inside the Stalin Archives,' reveals as much about the grim realities of post-Soviet life and bureaucracy as it does about the archives themselves. Equipped with little Russian and few contacts, but with an almost palpable sense of decency and honest intentions that illuminate his book, Brent explains for the general reader as well as for specialists how he went about his work in the new Russia." 

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