September 2019 Issue Christian Goeschel Portraits in Tyranny How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century By Frank Dikötter LR
March 2016 Issue Geoffrey Roberts Everyday Stalinists On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics By Sheila Fitzpatrick LR
May 2003 Issue Richard Overy Poisonous TImes Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot By Jonathan Brent & Vladimir P Naumov LR
August 2003 Issue Richard Overy A Man of Steel Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar By Simon Sebag Montefiore LR
August 2014 Issue Richard Overy Their Enemy’s Enemy The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941 By Roger Moorhouse LR
April 2011 Issue Donald Rayfield Hell and After The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin By Stephen F Cohen LR
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
November 2008 Issue Richard Overy A Dirty Conflict World War Two Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West By Laurence Rees LR
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
October 2008 Issue Paul Addison Gabbo & Bovril Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945 By Nicholas Rankin 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
May 2006 Issue Richard Overy A Curious Correspondence My Dear Mr Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph V Stalin By Susan Butler (ed), Foreward by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. LR
May 2012 Issue Anna Reid Lev’s Letters Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag By Orlando Figes LR
December 2012 Issue Donald Rayfield Blood on the Streets Moscow, 1937 By Karl Schlögel (Translated by Rodney Livingstone) LR
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