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Book Reviews by subject:
Joseph Stalin

March 2016 Issue

Geoffrey Roberts

Everyday Stalinists

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

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

August 2003 Issue

Richard Overy

A Man of Steel

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

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

June 2004 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Duel of the Despots

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

By Richard Overy

October 2004 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Worst Dictator Since Tamerlane

Stalin: A Biography

By Robert Service

August 2014 Issue

Richard Overy

Their Enemy’s Enemy

The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939–1941

By Roger Moorhouse

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

November 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

A Dirty Conflict

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

By Laurence Rees

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

October 2008 Issue

Paul Addison

Gabbo & Bovril

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

By Nicholas Rankin

Nigel Jones

Behind the Wire

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

By Margarete Buber-Neumann

September 2007 Issue

Richard Overy

Twentieth Century Monsters

Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe

By Robert Gellately

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.

October 2012 Issue

Victor Sebestyen

Stalin Supreme

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944–1956

By Anne Applebaum

March 2013 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Curtain Falls

Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War

By Robert Gellately