DUEL FOR EUROPE — John Scoff —Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). When Stalin set the European tinder-box ablaze by signing the nonaggression pact with Hitler in August 1939, the civilized world gasped: How ...

With no advance publicity at all, Simon & Schuster last week published The Rainbow ($2.50). It is the $20,000 “Stalin Prize novel for 1943.” Most U.S. readers do not associate Stalin with literary ...

I don't know why, but I've gained a recent interested in Stalin, especially the military purges, forced mass starvations and executions of hundreds of thousands of Russians.<BR><BR>I don't really care ...

International confrontations and the strains within alliances remain both topical and fascinating, and few instances have been as central to our understanding of history as the tensions between the ...

The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin’s Propaganda War; by Alan Philps; Pegasus Books; 464 pp, $29.95 During World War II, the Metropol provided a base for a ...

The historian and broadcaster chooses his favourite books. He is talking about his book, “ Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won the ...

Repressive states tend to like their authors best when they are safely dead. Joseph Stalin admired Nikolai Gogol but criticized him as a reactionary. During World War II, to boost morale, Stalin’s ...

It proved the height of folly that western leaders supposed they could outwit Stalin, Gellately writes. It’s this point precisely that represents a central thrust of the book: Stalin stood as an ...

New York: Basic Books, 2014. Pp. 416. Illus., maps, notes, index. $29.99. ISBN: 0465030750. The Enigmatic Nazi-Soviet Alliance On his return from Moscow in August 1939, Hitler asked von Ribbentrop ...

THE STATEMENT: “YOU JEWS HAVE CREATED ONE ETERNALLY TRUE LEGEND — THAT OF JUDAS,” ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH STALIN, DICTATOR OF SOVIET RUSSIA, IN THE ENGLISH EDITION OF LION FEUCHTWANGER’S NEW BOOK “MOSCOW ...