Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

HA 's On Revolution explored the unfolding of the American and the French Revolutions, and the nature of Marxist theory, its translation into revolutionary action, and its distortion under Stalin into totalitarianism.

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

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.