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 LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Reforming Opinions The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution By Mobo Gao LR
May 2008 Issue John Shakespeare This Tortured Land Phnom Penh: A Cultural and Literary History By Milton Osborne LR
March 2013 Issue John Gray Evasion Tactics Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century By Eric Hobsbawm LR
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