BOOKS ON POLAND

Poland is still reeling from a tragic plane crash on April 10th, which killed kill 96 people, including President Lech Kaczynski (see obituary) and dozens of the country's military and political elite.

In the latest from the "Bedside table" series on The Economist online, Edward Lucas, the paper's central and Eastern Europe correspondent (and author of “The New Cold War: how the Kremlin menaces Russia and the West”) offers some suggestions for books about the country and the region. "Katyn was just one part of Stalin’s enormous mincing machine, which was itself just a part of a longer history of Soviet brutality that started with Lenin and ended with Gorbachev," he writes.

 

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