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Thatcher: The Letting Go

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Herself Alone

by Charles Moore

March 26, 2020 issue

The Lure of Western Europe

‘The Global Age: Europe 1950–2017’ by Ian Kershaw

The Global Age: Europe 1950–2017

by Ian Kershaw

June 6, 2019 issue

A Letter from Contributors

October 25, 2018 issue

A New European Narrative?

The continent is plagued by crises that cannot be solved by any one nation.

The Great Regression

edited by Heinrich Geiselberger

The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

by James Kirchick

After Europe

by Ivan Krastev

Slippery Slope: Brexit and Europe’s Troubled Future

by Giles Merritt

Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir

by Anton Shekhovtsov

In Defence of Europe: Can the European Project Be Saved?

by Loukas Tsoukalis

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October 12, 2017 issue

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

March 21, 2017

The Victory of Ukraine

Serhii Plokhy’s ‘The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine’

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

by Serhii Plokhy

“Tell Them We Are Starving”: The 1933 Soviet Diaries of Gareth Jones

edited by Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, with an introduction by Ray Gamache

Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor

by Ray Gamache

April 7, 2016 issue

Letter

Teresa Cherfas

Subterfuge in Ukraine

June 9, 2016 issue

How He and His Cronies Stole Russia

Karen Dawisha’s ‘Putin’s Kleptocracy’

Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

by Karen Dawisha

December 18, 2014 issue

Letter

The Editors

‘Putin’s Kleptocracy’

February 5, 2015 issue

How to Succeed in Business

Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ and Hanna Rosin’s ‘The End of Men’

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell

The End of Men and the Rise of Women

by Hanna Rosin

June 6, 2013 issue

How the Communists Inexorably Changed Life

November 22, 2012 issue

In the New World of Spies

Russian spies, past, present, and future

The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service

by Andrew Meier

Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution

by Robert Service

Stalin’s Romeo Spy: The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative

by Emil Draitser

Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West

by Edward Lucas

October 25, 2012 issue

Vladimir’s Tale

Masha Gessen’s ‘The Man Without a Face’

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

by Masha Gessen

April 26, 2012 issue

‘The Worst of the Madness’

December 23, 2010 issue

The Worst of the Madness

The vast majority of Hitler’s victims, Jewish and otherwise, never saw a concentration camp. Some ten million died in killing fields in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia.

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

by Timothy Snyder

Stalin's Genocides

by Norman M. Naimark

November 11, 2010 issue

Letter

David Bennett

‘The Worst of the Madness’

December 23, 2010 issue

Yesterday’s Man?

Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic

by Michael Scammell

February 11, 2010 issue

Letter

Thomas Baroth

Koestler Comes Back

March 11, 2010 issue

A Mad, Bad, and Brutal Baron

The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia

by James Palmer

July 16, 2009 issue

Laughable and Tragic

The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

by Timothy Snyder

October 23, 2008 issue

A Movie That Matters

Katyn

a film directed by Andrzej Wajda, written by Andrzej Mularczyk and Andrzej Wajda

February 14, 2008 issue

How Hitler Could Have Won

The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II

by Andrew Nagorski

Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War

by Rodric Braithwaite

October 25, 2007 issue

The Real Patriotic War

Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939–1945

by Catherine Merridale

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941–1945

edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova

April 6, 2006 issue

Hero

The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov

edited and annotated by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov

October 20, 2005 issue