Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Belgian refugees descending on her Kentish village early in the First World War reminded EBO of a plague of locusts, and though she says that everyone loved and pitied them, they were also delighted to...

Her research for this novel touched on many different nineteenth-century cultures. She read a study of French prostitutes and sex advice for young American couples. She read about dictators: accounts of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos

EF published Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova, an account taking in both Tsarist and StalinistRussia and extremes of wealth and poverty.

Its time-span embraces Weimar Germany at one end and the McCarthy era at the other, by way of the years of terror in Stalin 's Russia. EF made Frieda (an invented character among figures from...

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

In 1934 she had a series of meetings with Stalin at Moscow. She was always susceptible to admiration for exceptional energy and force of personality, but her writings about these tyrants suggest that...

RF 's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to...

In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky , who encouraged CG , then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted...

The essays here examine many of her own writing practices and her feelings and opinions about her art. As well as introductions to individual novels the book collects pieces with such intriguing titles as Why...

Of Martha's twin quests, that for emotional fulfilment brings her more pain and loss than pleasure, and that for a viable political creed is no more fruitful. She becomes a Communist, and is later dismayed...

Together with a group of Communist sympathisers who nonetheless abhorred the rule of Joseph Stalin (who included her current lover, Philip Rahv ), MMC issued a new first, resurrected issue of the defunct left-wing literary...

He set the action in England to show that the horrors of Stalin ist Russia could occur in any society. The main character, inexplicably dissident Winston Smith, is employed by the Ministry of Truth to...

This novel begins arrestingly as the twentieth century opens, in a village in old Russia. Baby Anna Larionov is born the grand-daughter of a count who, troubled by political unrest and calls for reform...

A huge cast of peripheral characters enables the book to move occasionally outside Russia: Berlin before the German-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 is vividly described. Later, cold-war America becomes a shadowy presence when the most...