Simon Ings

“Ah, bankers, students, workers, officials, servants, you are the cock-suckers of the useful, the masturbators of necessity. I shall never work. My hands are pure.” — Louis Aragon

Talk, 25 September: Stalin and his scientists visit Hampstead

Posted on August 31, 2016 by simonings

On Sunday 25 September at 1:00pm I’ll be speaking to writer Marcel Theroux about Stalin and the Scientists, and explaining how a handful of impoverished and underemployed graduates, professors and entrepreneurs, collectors and charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower.

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Tickets are £10 from JW3, the London Jewish Cultural Centre. Part of the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival 2016