November 2017 Issue Donald Rayfield A Dictator’s Progress Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941 By Stephen Kotkin LR
April 2004 Issue Simon Heffer Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator By Solomon Volkov LR
March 2009 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy The Name’s Oggins The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service By Andrew Meier LR
August 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield The Monster Hedgehog Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’ By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov LR
September 2012 Issue Richard Overy Saviour of Moscow Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov By Geoffrey Roberts LR
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