Leonard Schapiro was a British political scientist and one of the world’s foremost experts on Soviet politics. His works include The Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Russian Studies; he also translated Turgenev’s novel Spring Torrentsinto English.
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Stalin Wins
October 13, 1983
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Soviet Heroes
October 13, 1983
Ease My Sorrows: A Memoir by Lev Kopelev, translated by Antonina W. Bouis.
Memoirs by Petro G. Grigorenko, by Thomas P. Whitney
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The Case for Khrushchev
April 28, 1983
Khrushchev by Roy Medvedev, translated by Brian Pearce
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Under the Volcano
January 20, 1983
Stalin’s Secret War by Nikolai Tolstoy
Confiscated Power: How Soviet Russia Really Works by Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, translated by George Holoch
USSR: The Corrupt Society by Konstantin M. Simis
Notes of a Revolutionary by Andrei Amalrik, translated by Guy Daniels
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The Polish Revolution
February 4, 1982
The Polish August: The Self-Limiting Revolution with a new afterword, by the Viking Press in April.) by Neal Ascherson
Poland Today: The State of the Republic compiled by "The Experience and the Future" Discussion Group, with an introduction by Jack Bielasiak
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A Good Man
November 5, 1981
Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaust
by John Bierman
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Scaffolding of Lies
September 24, 1981
The Rise of the Gulag: Intellectual Origins of Leninism by Alain Besançon, translated by Sarah Matthews
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The Party’s Power
April 30, 1981
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Appointment in Samara
February 19, 1981
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Soviet Heroes
December 18, 1980
Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights by Joshua Rubinstein
A Chronicle of Current Events No. 54 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in the USSR
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Making the Classless Society
October 23, 1980
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Liberalizing Lenin?
October 9, 1980
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A Journey Into the Soviet Future
October 9, 1980
Stalin’s Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union by Seweryn Bialer
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Communist Myths
April 17, 1980
The October Revolution by Roy A. Medvedev, translated by George Saunders
On Stalin and Stalinism by Roy A. Medvedev, translated by Ellen de Kadt
On Soviet Dissent by Roy Medvedev, by Piero Ostellino, translated by William A. Packer
Trotsky, Fate of a Revolutionary by Robert Wistrich
Leon Trotsky: A Biography by Ronald Segal
Trotsky: A Study in the Dynamic of His Thought by Ernest Mandel
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Rewriting the Russian Rules
July 19, 1979
How the Soviet Union Is Governed by Jerry F. Hough, by Merle Fainsod
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Max Hayward (1924–1979)
July 19, 1979
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A Shameful Story
December 7, 1978
The Secret Betrayal by Nikolai Tolstoy
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The Russian Way
August 17, 1978
The Punished Peoples: The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War by Aleksandr M. Nekrich, translated by George Saunders
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Two Cheers for Leskov
April 20, 1978
Nicolai Leskov: The Man and His Art by Hugh McLean
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An Exchange on the Russian Revolution
June 9, 1977
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Two Years That Shook the World
March 31, 1977
The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd by Alexander Rabinowitch
The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization by John L.H. Keep
Class Struggles in the USSR: First Period 1917-1923 by Charles Bettelheim, translated by Brian Pearce
The File on the Tsar by Anthony Summers, by Tom Mangold
The Secret Police in Lenin’s Russia by Lennard D. Gerson
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Russia: The Pursuit of the Extreme
November 25, 1976
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
by Edward Crankshaw
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Before and After Solzhenitsyn
January 22, 1976
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Disturbing, Fanatical, and Heroic
November 13, 1975
The Gulag Archipelago Two 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts III-IV by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney
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Khrushchev Forgets
August 8, 1974
Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, with a foreword by Edward Crankshaw, an introduction by Jerrold L. Schecter
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Bukharin and Others
May 2, 1974
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Bukharin’s Way
February 7, 1974
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938 by Stephen F. Cohen
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The Soviet Jews
July 19, 1973
The Soviet Cage: Anti-Semitism in Russia by William Korey
Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930 by Zvi Y. Gitelman
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What Is Fascism?
February 12, 1970
The Nature of Fascism edited by S.J. Woolf
Die Deutsche Diktatur Enstehung Struktur Folgen des Nationalsozialismus by Karl Dietrich Bracher
The History of the Nazi Party 1919 to 1933 by Dietrich Orlow
The Limits of Hitler’s Power by Edward N. Peterson
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A Lost Politics
December 5, 1968
The Russian Empire 1801-1917 by Hugh Seton-Watson
Russian Intellectual History: An Anthology edited by Marc Raeff, with an Introduction by Isaiah Berlin
Russian Philosophy edited by James M. Edie, edited by James P. Scanlan, edited by Mary Barbara Zeldin, with the collaboration of George L. Kline
Historical Letters by Peter Lavrov, translated with an Introduction and Notes by James P. Scanlan
The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich
Danilevsky: A Russian Totalitarian by Robert E. MacMaster
Russian Political Thought: An Introduction by Thornton Anderson
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture by James H. Billington
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The Jews and the Revolution
September 14, 1967
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Foul Play
June 1, 1967
Blood Accusation: The Strange History of the Beiliss Case by Maurice Samuel
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A Source of Light
September 22, 1966
Power and the Soviet Elite by Boris I. Nicolaevsky, edited by Janet D. Zagoria
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Kerensky’s Case
December 9, 1965
Russia and History’s Turning Point by Alexander Kerensky
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New Directions
June 11, 1964
The Soviet Political Mind by Robert C. Tucker
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Inside the Whale
September 26, 1963
The Future of Russia by Harry Braverman
The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism by Adam B. Ulam
How Russia Is Ruled by Merle Fainsod