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Podcast: New Books in Literature
Episode: Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)
Description: Moscow Underground (HarperCollins, 2025) by Dr. Catherine Merridale is a sweeping novel of life, death and politics in the quicksand world of Stalin's tyranny.
Moscow's glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia's leaders want to build a glorious Soviet capital, what holds them in a fatal grip is history: old mud and bones.
Anton Belkin is an Investigator at the Procuracy, a sensitive job at a dangerous m...