Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

SB 's political activities included steady opposition to France's colonial war in Algeria, and lifelong support for socialism and feminism. Elaine Showalter has written that SB 's feminist credentials stem from her writing, and...

Back in London in 1953 after Stalin 's death, CS began to understand what a stigma it was at this date to be a Communist. She nevertheless remained faithful to her partner's hard-line politics even...

RT 's second book, an illustrated life of Josef Stalin , appeared in 1975 in the same series.

However, her poetry was publicly denounced in July this year, and in August the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union imposed a ban on the journals Zvezda (The Star) and Leningrad...

Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.

When Irina returns as a bit-part heroine from facing death in the Arctic, Boris finds her a job as housekeeper to his friend Anton Antonovich, a university intellectual, who has taken in a destitute orphan...

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...

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...

The protagonist here, Franz Ferdinand Ebermann of the London firm of Fawcett and Ebermann, is another Jew with a far-flung family. His Viennese cousins and their ilk, professors' daughters or bank managers' widows or proprietors...

The protagonist couple in this novel are both US Communists in the 1940s. Stephen Howard is an Ivy-League-educated child of privilege; his wife, Emily Wilkes, who says she comes from Hix-on-the-Stix, is an exuberant...

AA took the courageous step of writing to Stalin (Much respected Josif Vissarionovich) with a dignified petition that he should free Punin and her son Lev from prison.

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.

After Stalin fell from power, with Poem Without a Hero circulating in manuscript, there was serious thought about publishing it.

Relieved from the burden of the Stalin era, AA now began engaging with young writers in poetry readings and literary discussions, so much so as to become a living proof that literature was still alive.