The Kremlin Ball av Curzio Malaparte, Jenny McPhee

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<b>A perverse and delicious tell-all view of the Soviet elite in the 1920s. </b><br><br>Perhaps only the impeccably perverse imagination of Curzio Malaparte could have conceived of <i>The Kremlin Ball</i>, which might be described as Proust in the corridors of Soviet power. Malaparte began this impertinent portrait of Russia''s Marxist aristocracy while he was working on <i>The Skin</i>, his story of American-occupied Naples, and after publishing <i>Kaputt</i>, his depiction of Europe in the hands of the Axis, thinking of this book as a another "picture of the truth" and a third panel in a great composition depicting the decadence of twentieth-century Europe. The book is set at the end of the 1920s, when the great terror may have been nothing more than a twinkle in Stalin''s eye, but when the revolution was accompanied by a growing sense of doom. In Malaparte''s vision it is from his nightly opera box, rather than the Kremlin, that Stalin surveys Soviet high society, its scandals