THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVEBOOKS & IDEAS

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 11, 2006 | Copyright information


International Herald Tribune

03-11-2006

THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVE By James Meek. 400 pages. $24. Canongate. (l7.99 paperback.) *Westerners hardly paid attention when the oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky thanked the Russian government for jailing him in the part of Siberia where the Decembrists were exiled, after a failed uprising against the czar in 1825, writes the reviewer Boris Fishman. But Khodorkovsky knew exactly what he was doing; there's no event in Russian h...

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