GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Acute angles on the revolution that changed the world
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
1917 The Russian Revolution: Reactions and Impact
Edited by David Morgan
(Socialist History Society, £6)
“DO WE really need another book on the Russian revolution?” David Morgan asks rhetorically in his preface to this publication.
The answer is “yes” if it deepens our understanding of those historical events and provides a fresh perspective and this volume of short essays by eight perceptive and challenging historians does just that.
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