Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky june 2021 and where its young people

and where its young people may be headed: a fascist generation more violent and ideological than anything the country has seen before

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Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey in Russian History by Rachel Polonsky june 2021 and where its young peopleWhen Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered his library and an old magic lantern. Molotov ruthless apparatchik, participant in the collectivisations and the Great Purge was also an ardent bibliophile. Molotov's library and his magic lantern