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Leonard Schapiro

Leonard Schapiro was a British political scientist and one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet politics. His works include The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian Studies; he also translated Turgenev’s novel Spring Torrentsinto English.

Soviet Heroes

Ease My Sorrows: A Memoir

by Lev Kopelev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis.

Memoirs

by Petro G. Grigorenko and Thomas P. Whitney

October 13, 1983 issue

Under the Volcano

Stalin's Secret War

by Nikolai Tolstoy

Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works

by Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, translated by George Holoch

USSR: The Corrupt Society

by Konstantin M. Simis

Notes of a Revolutionary

by Andrei Amalrik, translated by Guy Daniels

January 20, 1983 issue

A Good Man

A Good Man

Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust

by John Bierman

November 5, 1981 issue

Scaffolding of Lies

Scaffolding of Lies

The Rise of the Gulag: Intellectual Origins of Leninism

by Alain Besançon, translated by Sarah Matthews

September 24, 1981 issue

Soviet Heroes

Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights

by Joshua Rubinstein

A Chronicle of Current Events

No. 54 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in the USSR

December 18, 1980 issue

Communist Myths

Communist Myths

The October Revolution

by Roy A. Medvedev, translated by George Saunders

On Stalin and Stalinism

by Roy A. Medvedev, translated by Ellen de Kadt

On Soviet Dissent

by Roy Medvedev and Piero Ostellino, translated by William A. Packer

Trotsky, Fate of a Revolutionary

by Robert Wistrich

Leon Trotsky: A Biography

by Ronald Segal

Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of His Thought

by Ernest Mandel

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April 17, 1980 issue

The Russian Way

The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War

by Aleksandr M. Nekrich, translated by George Saunders

August 17, 1978 issue

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