Portraits of Vladimir Lenin and Josef Stalin displayed at a gathering of Russian communists for the celebration of the 106th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Photograph: Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA To Run the World Author : Sergey Radchenko ISBN-13 : 978-1108477352 Publisher : Cambridge University Press Guideline Price : £ 30 In October 1962 I was just out of my teens and I thought I was going to die. I was not alone. The Cuban missile crisis was the closest humankind came to nuclear annihilation. The Soviet Union under Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. A nuclear holocaust was...