My September and October Reading Logs

Nonfiction:
In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians before the Great War by W. Bruce Lincoln took me a year or more to finish. This book is from the 1980s, when it was a big deal that Lincoln had actually been to the U.S.S.R. for research. I had known very little about Russian history, so it was as good a starting place as any. I now know that labor strife has a long and storied history in Russia, and how the peasant farmer commune system worked very badly for a very long time, and that the Russia...