Reviews
Twentieth Century Communism - ISSN 1758-6437
Volume 2019 Number 16
Reviews
Willie Thompson, Tauno Saarela, Marzia Maccaferri, Gavin Bowd, Stephen Gundle, Geoff Andrews pages -
Abstract
Books reviewed:
- Richard J Evans; Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (London: Little, Brown; 2019), 1408707411, 785pp. Reviewed by Willie Thompson.
- Chris Holmsted Larsen, Den folkekære stalinist: En biografi om Carl Madsen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2017, ISBN 9788702220353, 543pp. Reviewed by Tauno Saarela.
- Massimo Asta, Girolamo Li Causi, Un rivoluzionario del Novecento, Rome: Carocci, 2017, ISBN 978884309048-3, 327pp. Reviewed by Marzia Maccaferri.
- Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy. Investigations in a Police File, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018, ISBN9780822370819, xvi + 323 pp. Reviewed by Gavin Bowd.
- Balazs Apor, The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945-1956, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017, ISBN 9789633861929, 415pp. Reviewed by Stephen Gundle.
- Russell Campbell, Codename Intelligentsia: the Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy, Stroud, History Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780750987059, 448pp;
- Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World, New York, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015, ISBN: 9781634505567, 336pp. Reviewed by Geoff Andrews.
- Geoffrey Swain, A Short History of the Russian Revolution, London, I. B. Tauris, 2017, ISBN 9781780767932 (pbk), 9781780767925 (hbk), 256pp. Reviewed by Francis King.
- Kristen Ghodsee, Second World, Second Sex. Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4780-0181-2 (pbk), 978-1-4780-0139-3 (hbk), 328pp. Reviewed by Tanja R. Müller.
- Jeremy Friedman, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, ISBN 9781469645520, x + 294pp. Reviewed by George Odysseos.
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Willie Thompson, Tauno Saarela, Marzia Maccaferri, Gavin Bowd, Stephen Gundle, Geoff Andrews (2019) Reviews, Twentieth Century Communism, 2019(16), -