War by Bob Woodward has the dubious honour of receiving only 1 star from me AND a highly-recommended & everyone should read it. This has a very simple explanation, the analysis is poor, but it is important to understand why things happened and this can…
Modernization from the Other Shore by David Engerman – American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development – is an interesting book, written nicely which might appeal to a wider range of people and not just people in academia. I think the book would have…
USSR by Walter Duranty is boring. This is particularly intriguing considering how readable his other books are. He was wrong about the soviet union and lied and lied and lied. But, nevertheless, his books were interesting to read, his articles were engaging. This one though…
Angels in Stalin’s Paradise by James William Crowl – Western reporters in Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1937, a case study of Louis Fischer and Walter Duranty – is a fascinating book. It was published in 1982 and there are a few inaccuracies, but not particularly…
The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis – From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s russia – is a book any American should read. It might sound a bit much, but it’s not. This book is about US as much as it…
The cholera years by Charles Rosenberg – the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 – is a book I read for my studies and I’m so happy I had to. First of all, I wasn’t aware that cholera was such a problem in US…
I know that one of my readers is keen to read the review for Little Book of US Presidents*, mainly because she mentioned it to me, even before I received it from Welbeck Publishing. So, I was very curious about the book. After a very…