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Last True Believer in Beijing

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

By Michael Sheridan

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Rowan Williams

The Poet’s Burden

On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe

By Eva Hoffman

May 2022 Issue

Paul Lay

Cricketer & Communist

C L R James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

By John L Williams

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Christopher Hitchens

Self-Castrated Beaver

Castro

By Peter Bourne

March 2017 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

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October 2016 Issue

Judith Vidal-Hall

Last of the Stalinists

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania

By Blendi Fevziu (Translated by Majlinda Nishku)

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June 2015 Issue

Frank Dikötter

Number Two Capitalist Roader

Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life

By Alexander V Pantsov & Steven I Levine

March 2003 Issue

Joan Smith

Death and Taxis

Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution

By Letizia Argenteri

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November 2003 Issue

Graham Hutchings

Anatomy Of A Leader

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shel and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby

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June 2009 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reluctant Dictator

The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China

By Jay Taylor

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August 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Monster Hedgehog

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’

By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov

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October 2008 Issue

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

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March 2007 Issue

John Jolliffe

Comrade Sofka

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By Sofka Zinovieff

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May 2013 Issue

Richard Overy

Capital Fellow

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life

By Jonathan Sperber

Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography

By Rolf Hosfeld (translated by Bernard Heise)

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