Adam LeBor

Not All it Seems

The Polish House: An Intimate History of Poland

By Radek Sikorski

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March 2016 Issue

Geoffrey Roberts

Everyday Stalinists

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

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

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April 2011 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Hell and After

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin

By Stephen F Cohen

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September 2009 Issue

Archie Brown

Comrades in Arms

The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World

By David Priestland

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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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April 2009 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Portraits of Persecution

Red Star over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin

By David King

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February 2009 Issue

Hazhir Teimourian

The Caliphate Strikes Back

Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979

By Con Coughlin

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December 2008 Issue

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Tsar Boot Sale

History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

By Sean McMeekin

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November 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

A Dirty Conflict

World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West

By Laurence Rees

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July 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Forgotten By Ford

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia

By Tim Tzouliadis

LR

August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Reforming Opinions

The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution

By Mobo Gao

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August 2008 Issue

Christopher Coker

A Sour War

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

By David Halberstam

LR

October 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell)

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May 2008 Issue

John Shakespeare

This Tortured Land

Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History

By Milton Osborne

LR

June 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Sparks of Humanity

The Zookeeper's Wife

By Diane Ackerman

LR

November 2007 Issue

Frederick Taylor

Dramatic Divide

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

By Patrick Wright

LR

October 2007 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Russian Dispossessed

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia

By Orlando Figes

The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s

By Hiroaki Kuromiya

LR

August 2007 Issue

Evan Mawdsley

Eastern Front

Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War – A Modern History

By Chris Bellamy

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March 2007 Issue

John Jolliffe

Comrade Sofka

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By Sofka Zinovieff

LR

August 2006 Issue

Adam LeBor

The Battle for Budapest

Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 – How the Hungarians Tried To Topple Their Soviet Masters

By Victor Sebestyen

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