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Orlando Figes

Maxim Gorky was revered as the leading Russian artist and intellectual associated with the 1917 Revolution throughout the lifetime of the Soviet Union. But did he really approve of Lenin and the Soviet experiment? Orlando Figes reassesses the position of this pivotal figure.

A look at a new exhibition in Venice, which shows the flow of culture between East and West in early Greece.


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