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S. J. Hamrick Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guy Burgess. Yale University Press, 320 pages, $29.95
Rufina Philby The Private Life of Kim Philby. St. Ermin's Press, 449 pages, $14.95
The Soviet Union is no more, and to a whole new generation it already seems unreal, preposterous, some sort of practical joke that the Russians played on themselves and the rest of the world. It didn't come off, did it, so it could never have come off, right? That was not how it appeared when Stalin was conquering and killing at will, or when Nikita Khrushchev was promising to bury the West. In general terms, the statesmen of the West, their advisors ...
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