For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Communism

February 2026 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Kremlin’s Long Reach

The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy

By Josh Ireland

February 2026 Issue

Philip Snow

A Party to the Horror

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

By Frank Dikötter

March 1995 Issue

Matt Seaton

Firebrands

Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party

By Francis Beckett

September 2024 Issue

Robert Service

Into the Dustbin of History

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism

By Sean McMeekin

September 2024 Issue

Daniel A Bell

Calculus, Covid & Communism

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

By Peter Hessler

September 2024 Issue

Kerry Brown

Last True Believer in Beijing

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

By Michael Sheridan

December 2023 Issue

Rowan Williams

The Poet’s Burden

On Czesław Miłosz: Visions from the Other Europe

By Eva Hoffman

Richard Cockett

From Our Drone Correspondent

The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Disinformation War

By Alan Philps

April 2023 Issue

John Kampfner

Honecker’s Hidden Pleasures

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990

By Katja Hoyer

July 2022 Issue

Rana Mitter

Au Revoir Saigon

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

By Christopher Goscha

Paul Lay

Cricketer & Communist

C L R James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

By John L Williams

February 2022 Issue

Daniel Johnson

Rhyme & Repression

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class That Tried to Win the Cold War

By Philip Oltermann

November 2021 Issue

Roderick Bailey

Hoxha’s Long Shadow

Mud Sweeter Than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania

By Margo Rejmer (Translated from Polish by Zosia Krasodomska-Jones & Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

By Lea Ypi

April 1984 Issue

Lesley Chamberlain

Warsaw Diary

February 1988 Issue

Sam Phipps

The Government Inspector

Perestroika – New Thinking for Our Country and the World

By Mikhail Gorbachev

February 1983 Issue

Antony Beevor

Spain’s Forgotten Years

In Hiding – The Life of Manuel Cortes

By Ronald Fraser

August 1980 Issue

Prabhu S. Guptara

Beating the System

The Proofreader

By Alexis Parnis, translated by Thomas Hatton and Byron Baizis

June 1987 Issue

Adam Zamoyski

He Danced with Molotov

Oni: Stalin's Polish Puppets

By Teresa Torańska (Translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska)

March 1992 Issue

Henry Porter

How all the Isms Became Wasms

The End of History and the Last Man

By Francis Fukuyama

April 1981 Issue

Terry Eagleton

Lukács

Essays on Realism

By Georg Lukács (Edited by Rodney Livingstone)