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• China: Worse than you ever imagined by Ian Johnson in the New York Review of Books.


• Totalitarianism, Famine and Us by Samuel Moyn in the Nation.


• Stalin's cannibals by Ron Rosenbaum, on Slate.


• The worst of the madness by Anne Applebaum in the New York Review of Books.


• Stalin and Hitler: Mass murder by starvation by Timothy Snyder in the New York Review of Books.


• Kakfa in Beijing by John Garnaut and Sanghee Liu in Foreign Policy.


• Bloc heads by Louis Menand in the New Yorker magazine.


• Yegor Gaidar's story about the dying days of the USSR is fascinating. This is not going to be the endgame of the PRC.


• Requiem, by Anna Akhmatova.