The Book Review Podcast with Marc Maron
On this week’s podcast, Sebestyen talks about “Lenin”. - Hear the full podcast
Orban: Europe’s New Strongman by Paul Lendvai
The rise of Hungary’s nationalist leader is a sign of what’s to come in eastern Europe - Read full article
St Petersburg: three centuries of murderous desire
Chaos and cruelty have dogged St Petersburg ever since its creation - Read full article
China Mieville's take on the Russian Revolution is wonderfully dated
October reminds me of the Marxist histories of my youth - except it’s rather better written... - Read full article
Revolutionary art at the RA
How the Bolshevik leaders betrayed the Revolution. - Read full article
Steve Bannon the Leninist
President Trump's chief strategist proudly admits "I am a Leninist". So we should worry... - Read full article
Russian art and revolution
As the Royal Academy unveils its huge new show of work produced in Russia between 1917 and 1932, Anne McElvoy and her guests - the film...
Public joy and private panic
A review of The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy. Newly unearthed material sheds fresh light on the...
A Pole's view of the Czechs. Who cares? You will
A review of Gottland, by Mariusz Szczygiel, a profoundly funny book about how one copes with tyranny. - Read full article
Revolutionary Russia 1891-1991 by Orlando Figes
Orlando Figes’ bestselling A People’s Tragedy, first published nearly 20 years ago, is one of the most compelling of all accounts of the...
Gavrilo Princip - The Trigger by Tim Butcher
Gavrilo Princip – history's ultimate teenage tearaway. A review of The Trigger, by Tim Butcher. A triumphant and original account of the...
The New Cold War That Isn't
If one is to believe the newspaper headlines and TV talking heads, we are in the midst of “a new Cold War” as a result of Russia’s...
What price freedom?
One of the best-known contacts for many Western reporters covering Poland and the Solidarity protests of the 1980s was Konstanty ‘Kostek’...
On Eastern Europe
Andrew Marr discusses Central Europe from the Soviet occupation to membership of the EU. Anne Applebaum looks back at what happened when...
A message to Putin: remember the Plastics
A band of long-haired psychedelic rockers locked up in the 1970s proved a catalyst in the fall of Soviet communism. “The band’s lyrics...