Books: A long trek back to Stalin Archangel by Robert Harris Hutchinson, pounds 16.99, 421pp

From: The Independent - London | Date: September 26, 1998| Author: Julian Rathbone | Copyright information

INSIDE ARCHANGEL there is a thinner book, a highly readable thriller, struggling to get out. In its plot, Mamantov, once a senior figure in the USSR, makes use of Stalin's notebook - found in a safe in the Kremlin - to attempt to bring about a return to Stalinist rule. Caught up in his machinations as an unwitting cog is "Fluke" Kelso, an English academic, expert in Stalin's USSR and the ordinary guy at the centre of this story.

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