On a personal note, one of the reasons why I chose to write my first book on a city (Lviv, formerly Lwów) that, in World War II, underwent very violent (though not equally - spoiler alert: the Nazis were worse) Nazi German and Stalinist Soviet rule was a single book by, I believe, a brilliant intellectual. In his “Revolution from Abroad,” the Polish, th…
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