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The end of the SovietUnion; Walking dead 前苏联的末途;行尸走肉; The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save aDying Nation.By Oliver Bullough. 《俄罗斯最后一人：拯救行将灭亡之国》，奥利佛布洛。 Stagnation, writes Oliver Bullough in his hauntingaccount of the late Soviet Union, is not sexy.Biographies of Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachevabound, but nobody has written seriously aboutLeonid Brezhnev, on whose watch the Soviet Union sank into drunken decay. The author of adefinitive book about the tortured history of the north Caucasus ,Mr Bullough has a good sense of how the traumas of Russia s past affect its present. His newbook is a mixture of travelogue and biography, as he traces the life of Father Dmitry Dudko,an Orthodox priest who exemplified both resistance to Soviet rule and defeat at its hands. 奥利弗布洛写过一本描述前苏联晚年的著作，阅读之后令人过目难忘，不过其中停滞部分却让人不愿直视。关于斯大林和戈尔巴乔夫的传记汗牛充栋，勃列日涅夫却鲜有人问津，即便他眼睁睁地看着前苏联陷入混沌恍惚的泥潭。关于叙述北高加索伤痕累累历史的著作，布洛的《让我们名声大噪》无疑是最好的一本，也就是说，对于俄罗斯过去的创伤如何影响当今时代布洛的嗅觉像狗一样灵敏。布洛的这本新书集游记和传记于一体，主线以东正教传教士德米特里杜德科神父的一生为轴。德米特里杜德科神父代表了一类人，首先反对苏联制度，之后却臣服于它。 | 
