SASHENKA By Simon Montefiore (Simon & Schuster, 522 pages, $27) “He’s a madman, she thought as he made love to her again,” Simon Montefiore writes in “Sashenka,” his new novel about the Russian Revolution. “Oh, my God, after 20 years of being the most rational Bolshevik woman in Moscow, this goblin has driven me crazy!” This is followed by some further unprintable description of the sexual …
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