Donald Rayfield

A Dictator’s Progress

Stalin, Vol II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941

By Stephen Kotkin

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

March 2004 Issue

Oleg Gordievsky

The Great Terroriser

Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him

By Donal Rayfield

LR

April 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

Music to Uncle Joe’s Ears

Shostakovich and Stalin: The Extraordinary Relationship Between the Great Composer and the Brutal Dictator

By Solomon Volkov

LR

June 2004 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Duel of the Despots

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

By Richard Overy

LR

October 2004 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Worst Dictator Since Tamerlane

Stalin: A Biography

By Robert Service

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

March 2009 Issue

Nikolai Tolstoy

The Name’s Oggins

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service

By Andrew Meier

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

August 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Monster Hedgehog

Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’

By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov

LR

October 2008 Issue

Paul Addison

Gabbo & Bovril

Churchill’s Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914–1945

By Nicholas Rankin

LR

May 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Behind the Wire

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

By Margarete Buber-Neumann

LR

June 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

From Russia with Love

Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and Betrayal

By Owen Matthews

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

September 2007 Issue

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

LR

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