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Lesia Diak: The pity of war

Very few people want to be documented, especially when it comes to the larger social traumas of the separation of Ukrainian soldiers from their loved ones. It is not an anti-war film, – Ukraine has no choice but to resist – but it refuses to turn away from the effects of war on families at home.

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Three books on Lenin

Lenin’s support for the rights of nations to self-determination, is made clear in Imperialism and the National Question. Three other books from the same publisher throw more light on him.   Sean Sheehan   “Lenin’s childhood” gathers what is known about the third child of Ilya Nikolaevich Ulyanov and Maria […]