Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

LR

March 2016 Issue

Geoffrey Roberts

Everyday Stalinists

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

By Sheila Fitzpatrick

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June 1984 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Dead Men on Leave

Record of a Life

By George Lukács

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July 2004 Issue

Victory Sebestyen

A Modern Martyr

To Kill A Priest: The Murder of Father Popieluszko and the Fall of Communism

By Kevin Ruane

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April 2011 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Hell and After

The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin

By Stephen F Cohen

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July 2009 Issue

Catherine Merridale

All Wood and Dreams

Tatlin’s Tower: Monument to Revolution

By Norbert Lynton

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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

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December 2008 Issue

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Tsar Boot Sale

History’s Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks

By Sean McMeekin

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November 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

A Dirty Conflict

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

By Laurence Rees

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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

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August 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Monster Hedgehog

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

By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov

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October 2008 Issue

Nigel West

Smoking Gun

The Sixth Man

By James McNeish

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May 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Behind the Wire

Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler

By Margarete Buber-Neumann

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June 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

From Russia with Love

Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and Betrayal

By Owen Matthews

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June 2008 Issue

Nigel Jones

Sparks of Humanity

The Zookeeper's Wife

By Diane Ackerman

LR

April 2008 Issue

Phillip Knightley

The Socialist at Centre-Half

Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak

By Jim Riordan

LR

November 2007 Issue

Frederick Taylor

Dramatic Divide

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

By Patrick Wright

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October 2007 Issue

John McEwen

Figurative V Abstract

Vitebsk: The Life of Art

By Aleksandra Shatskikh (Translated by Katherine Foshko)

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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

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