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Drawing on 125 unpublished diaries written by individuals from all walks of Soviet life

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Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize

Rasputin and Other Ironies by Teffi women writers поэма «Горбунов и Горчаков» иRanging from portraits of Rasputin and Lenin to observations on the Russian Revolution, and from profiles of cultural figures to moving domestic scenes, this short collection includes writings by the inimitable Teffi never before published in English. Everything is here politics, society, art and literature, love and family life and all is told in Teffi's multifaceted style: amusing, sincerely moving, ironic and always honest, pervaded by an intensely