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A Taste for Freedom: The Life of Astophe de Custine
A Taste for Freedom The Life of Astophe de Custine Author:Anka Muhlstein Astolphe de Custine's Russia in 1839 was called "the best guide to Russia ever written;" essential to understanding Stalin and the Soviet Union. Astolphe was a son of the French Revolution, whose father and grandfather had been guillotined and whose mother had been imprisoned.