Richard Davenporthines

Eric the Red

The bestselling historian believed that Stalin’s purges might have been justified had the Soviet Union become a successful socialist model

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issue 02 February 2019

  • Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

    Richard Evans

    Little Brown, pp. 800

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