Totalitarianism in Europe: Three Case StudiesAlmenna bókafélagiđ/ACRE, 2. jan. 2026 Three essays: on Elinor Lipper who spent eleven years in Stalin’s labour camps and wrote a book about it; on a surprise encounter in Iceland between a former German Nazi, now a communist in East Germany, and a Jewess who escaped to Iceland; and on the Stalinist apologist Halldor Laxness, Iceland’s only Nobel Laureate in literature. |
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