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Lead book review

Nothing is certain in Russia, where the past is constantly rewritten

Nothing is certain in a country where the past is constantly rewritten, says Owen Matthews

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

20 August 2022

9:00 AM

Russia – Myths and Realities: The History of a Country With an Unpredictable Past Rodric Braithwaite

Profile, pp.224, 16.99

Enforced brevity focuses the mind wonderfully. And when the minds in question are two of the West’s most interesting historians of Russia, the result is a distillation of insight that’s vitally timely. Sir Rodric Braithwaite was Britain’s ambassador to Moscow from 1988-92 during the collapse of the USSR (where he was the boss of Christopher Steele, of Trump dossier fame), then chaired the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee.

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