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“... should have an army. Others concern matters of importance to a local community such as whether a new school should be built or a road improved. Occasionally the votes throw up radical results. In Zürich, for example, successive referenda over a 25-year period have produced majorities in favour of public transport against the car. The result is probably the ...”

“... the same period, promoted his old friend’s music along similar lines. It was the beginning of a new era in Shostakovich’s Western reception. Word went round that his pro-Soviet statements were not his at all but written by others and published under his signature. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, a small flood of memoirs – of which Elizabeth ...”

“... and metaphorical bloodsuckers; Natasha is a prostitute/fly; Marina a military widow/ant; and Mitya a gloomy teenager/moth. The choice of parallels is often obvious, the characters are easy targets: the interest lies not in the individuals themselves but in the hazy boundaries between their human and insect forms. The switches are never described as they ...”