THE STORM (508 pp.)—Ilya Ehrenburg —Gaer ($3.50). In the ’20s, when Paris was at its gayest and Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg took orders only from himself, he would sit hour after hour at a table ...

a typewriter and a glass for Kiddush that belonged to the Soviet writer and publicist Ilya Ehrenburg, and many other valuable artefacts.

Russian Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg announced that the Russians are “sick and tired of the cold war” and want to end it. Premier Georgy Malenkov beamed a velvety message to the U.S.: “With ...