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December 12, 2024

A Soviet-Jewish Writer’s Post-Stalin Novel

Ilya Ehrenburg, “Stalin’s favorite Jew.”

How Vladimir Putin will respond to these setbacks is anyone’s guess. But Leon Aron contends that something can be learned about his regime by looking at a largely forgotten short Russian novel, which testifies to “mankind’s ineradicable yearning for the dignity in gaining moral autonomy from the totalitarian state.”

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