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When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

Stalin's terror campaign against the best Soviet doctors, Fidel Castro's triumphant entry into Havana and the best selling memoir about a Brazilian favela.

Stalin's last terror campaign against the best Soviet doctors, Castro's triumphant entry into Havana, the extraordinary story of how a destitute single mother produced a best selling memoir about her life in a Brazilian favela. Also, the controversy over 'Fat Is a Feminist Issue', and the world's only seed vault.

Photo: Yakov Rapoport, one of the few survivors of Stalin's 'Doctors' Plot'. Credit: family archive.

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