Johnny Acton

Never a Bore

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America

By Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Translated by Ann Wright

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

Ivan Klima

Letter From Prague: Ivan Klima Describes how Pop Singers Threaten a Great Literary Tradition

Judith Vidal-Hall

Last of the Stalinists

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania

By Blendi Fevziu (Translated by Majlinda Nishku)

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton Interviews Vaclav Havel

Adam LeBor

Not All it Seems

The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland

By Radek Sikorski

Anthony Holden

Name Dropping

Naming Names

By Victor S Navasky

Geoffrey Roberts

Everyday Stalinists

On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

Paul Theroux

Chuang Shang Wen-Xue

Life and Death in Shanghai

By Nien Cheng

Olga Carlisle

Interview: Milan Kundera

Christopher Hitchens

Dead Men on Leave

Record of a Life

By George Lukács

Joan Smith

Death and Taxis

Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution

By Letizia Argenteri

Donald Rayfield

A Communist’s Progress

The Diary of Georgi Dimitrov: 1933-1949

By Ivo Bana (ed)

Jonathan Mirsky

Picture The Revolution

Red-Color News Soldier

By Li Zhensheng, Robert Pledge (ed) Jonathan Spence (intr)

Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on The Eve of Revolution

By Jack Bins, Crolyn Wakeman, Ken Light (Intr, Edd)

Justin Marozzi

The Great Dictator

The Real Fidel Castro

By Leycester Colman

Graham Hutchings

Anatomy Of A Leader

Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shel and the China He Lost

By Jonathan Fenby

Andrew Roberts

Duel of the Despots

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

By Richard Overy

William Palmer

The Road To Hell

Devastating Eden: The Search For Utopia In America

By Brian Thompson