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Stephen May’s Sell Us The Rope is a new novel about the London congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party of 1907. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Rosa Luxemburg play leading roles in the story. I know: it sounds great. But before you click on ‘Buy Now’ on Amazon, let me tell you a bit more. The book’s premise that Stalin was a long-term, paid informer for the tsarist secret police (the Okhrana) made the story especially interesting for me. The fact that it had a positive review in the New York Times that was icing on the cake.
Stephen May’s Sell Us The Rope is a new novel about the London congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party of 1907. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Rosa Luxemburg play leading roles in the story. I know: it sounds great. But before you click on ‘Buy Now’ on Amazon, let me tell you a bit more. The book’s premise that Stalin was a long-term, paid informer for the tsarist secret police (the Okhrana) made the story especially interesting for me. The fact that it had a positive review in the New York Times that was icing on the cake.