... old Dame Laura Knight. In fact almost everything at the Grosvenor underlines the paradox that Royal Academic ians and Russian revolution aries with avowedly opposite aims have arrived at the same uninspiring goal. The exhibi tion abounds in landscapes of ...

... confessing and Mr. Valk suddenly stills laughter with a moving appeal lrom the memory of the idealistic makers of the Russian revolution to the sympathy of the makers of the modern police state. There is just as much discomfiture in the embassy over the ...

... 42s.) is described on the outside as being about the Cold War from its origins in 1917. That is, it starts with the Russian Revolution. It is a narrative summary of the international political changes and ter giversations that have overtaken humanity ...

... securely banked in Europe. Her claim is at least proof that she cannot be the heroine of any play written before the Russian revolution. It would be easy else to suppose that we were being treated to a revival of some run-of- the-mill Edwardian drama which ...

... favour. When further years have englamoured the former Muscovite scene, somebody will invent a Scarlet Pimpernel of the Russian revolution and (after several publishers have declined it) it will flood the world and start a new vogue in Russo- romantic plays ...

... and curiously vivid book, written from diaries kept by the author when he was twelve years old and escaping from the Russian Revolution as brightly coloured and fiercely alarming as something out of the Arabian Nights. And anyone who really wants to know ...