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Five years ago, Martin Amis published a peculiar little book about Stalin called Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million.
Martin Amis��� Gulag: Accurate, Harrowing, Not Quite Plausible 2007
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Their destination was a planet called Koba, a lightly populated world where recently settled monsters had established a foothold against the forces of civilization.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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Their destination was a planet called Koba, a lightly populated world where recently settled monsters had established a foothold against the forces of civilization.
The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992
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As a result, the populations of cities such as Koba and Chichenitza expanded significantly during the Post-Classic periods.
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As a result, the populations of cities such as Koba and Chichenitza expanded significantly during the Post-Classic periods.
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It's a pre-election treat for voters where the mayor is shoring up his credentials as a reform-minded job creator, said Koba Turmanidze, a political analyst at Tbilisi State University.
Georgians Looking for Jobs, Loans Can Make a Pitch on Reality TV Joe Parkinson 2011
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Suffice it to say that Stalin's son, the spitting image of his father, strides onto the scene; Harris clearly understands the curious and unsettling Russian nostalgia for Koba the Dread.
Windows on the Cold War Charles Cumming 2011
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He went with a bang not a whimper: two of his last contributions to the New Republic were a trenchant critique of the history of the six-day war by Michael Oren, now Israeli ambassador to Washington, and an evisceration of Koba the Dread, Martin Amis's purported book on Stalin.
Tony Judt obituary 2010
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Koba the Dread (2002) was a non-fiction book about Stalin, the novel House of Meetings (2006) was about the gulags, The Second Plane (2008) was a collection of essays about September 11 2001 – but none of these really worked.
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Koba was customarily well written, and useful; and The Second Plane was thought provoking and at times poetic on a completely relevant topic.
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