Donald Rayfield

An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End

Pushkin's Button

By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)

March 2019 Issue

Tobie Mathew

Power Failure

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By Adam Higginbotham

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

By Kate Brown

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March 2019 Issue

Christopher Andrew

The Spy Who Loved Himself

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

By Owen Matthews

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March 2019 Issue

Donald Rayfield

When Knowledge Met Power

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

By Robert Zaretsky

February 2019 Issue

Alexander Maitland

From Yorkshire to Yalutorovsk

Thomas, Lucy and Alatau: The Atkinsons’ Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe

By John Massey Stewart

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February 2019 Issue

Catherine Brown

She Had Sweets Named After Her

Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter

By Edythe Haber

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Kyril FitzLyon

Spectator Sport

Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba 1928-1978

By Paul Hollander

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December 2018 Issue

Richard Overy

Won in the Post

The Kremlin Letters: Stalin’s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt

By David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

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December 2018 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Yours Radically

Greetings From the Barricades: Revolutionary Postcards in Imperial Russia

By Tobie Mathew

November 2018 Issue

Xan Smiley

Orphans of the USSR

The Shoemaker and His Daughter: One Ordinary Family’s Remarkable Journey from Stalin’s Soviet Union to Putin’s Russia

By Conor O’Clery

LR

November 2018 Issue

Rosalind P Blakesley

Treasures of a Trailblazer

The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

By Natalya Semenova with André Delocque (Translated by Anthony Roberts)

October 2018 Issue

Frederick Forsyth

Our Kind of Traitor

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

By Ben Macintyre

September 2018 Issue

Lucy Popescu

Oleg Sentsov

August 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

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August 2018 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

By Frances Welch

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August 2018 Issue

Douglas Smith

Before Oblomov

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada'

By Edyta M Bojanowska

December 2007 Issue

Tom Fleming

Match of the Century

White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War was Fought on the Chessboard

By By Daniel Johnson

June 2018 Issue

Jonathan Steinberg

Massacre of the Innocents

Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History

By Steven J Zipperstein

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May 2018 Issue

Tobie Mathew

Disaster by Design

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

By Serhii Plokhy

May 2018 Issue

Michael Burleigh

Apocalypse Nearly

1983: The World at the Brink

By Taylor Downing

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