{"product_id":"9780099438021-koba-the-dread","title":"Koba The Dread","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKoba the Dread\u003c\/i\u003e is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, \u003ci\u003eExperience\u003c\/i\u003e. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKoba the Dread\u003c\/i\u003e is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, \u003ci\u003eExperience\u003c\/i\u003e. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author's father, Kingsley Amis, was 'a Comintern dogsbody' (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and later in life his closest friend, was Robert Conquest, whose book \u003ci\u003eThe Great Terror\u003c\/i\u003e was second only to Solzhenitsyn's \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Archipelago\u003c\/i\u003e in undermining the USSR. Amis's remarkable memoir explores these connections. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere 'statistic'.  \u003ci\u003eKoba the Dread\u003c\/i\u003e, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943045673057,"sku":"9780099438021","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39199370_caf26575-0267-417f-8908-514a8a81f0d3.jpg?v=1767059597","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099438021-koba-the-dread","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}