Inner Mongolia

Tony Wood

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Russian history is full of turning points. To the outside observer, there is nothing but upheaval on an unimaginable scale: revolutions, murders, war, starvation – a litany of suffering. Seen from within, these events are no less terrifying. They lack the shape our general terms give them, and perhaps for those experiencing them, shapelessness is a key part of the terror they hold.

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[1] Translated by Andrew Bromfield (Harbord, 176 pp., £9.99, 2 February 1998, 1 899414 30 4).

[2] First published in Great Britain by Harbord in 1996.

[3] First published in Andrew Bromfield’s translation by Harbord in 1994 and reissued in paperback by Faber in 1996 (154 pp., £6.99, 0 571 17798 0).

Vol. 21 No. 12 · 10 June 1999 » Tony Wood » Inner Mongolia (print version)
Pages 39-40 | 2858 words