A review of "Conspirator: Lenin in Exile." Historian Helen Rappaport vividly portrays Lenin's formative years as a political exile from tsarist Russia, before he returned...
A review of "The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. Historian Joyce Appleby analyzes the unlikely convergence of forces that created capitalism, the economic system...
"Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia" by Vladislav Zubok is the story of the brief flowering of Russian intellectual life throughout the second half of...
"Sashenka," the new novel by Russian historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, tells a riveting story of a woman whose life spans Russia's three 20th-century incarnations —...
Author Timothy Ryback's discovery of a cache of 1,000 volumes from Hitler's personal library in the Library of Congress resulted in his new book, "Hitler's...
"Stalin's Children: Three Generations of Love, War and Survival" by Owen Matthews is the author's story of his parents' Cold War-era love affair in the...
In "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia," Tim Tzouliadis tells the tragic story of the thousands of idealistic Americans who moved to Stalin's...
"The Red Prince" by Timothy Snyder tells the tragic true story of a Habsburg archduke who adopted the guises of soldier, spy, leftist aristocrat, international...