Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

In 1891 Edward Garnett brought home with him a Russian political exile, Felix Volkhovsky , who encouraged CG , then pregnant, to learn Russian. As a result of this friendship, she and Edward became acquainted...

Stalin endorsed Akhmatova's letter with an order to free the prisoners.

Mary Agnes Hamilton later commented on the uncharacteristic lyricism of this book. Although it was hard to read, it was, she said, hungrily read. BW herself was delighted to meet a taxi driver who...

The one-hundredth anniversary of SB 's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the...

In her review for the Guardian, Susanna Rustin was resolutely not too impressed. She found the characters too black-and-white, and that the novel has little to say about the function of art. ....

One outspoken admirer of CS was Angela Carter , who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'. She strongly recommended Stead's work for re-issuing in the Virago Modern...

Its time-span embraces Weimar Germany at one end and the McCarthy era at the other, by way of the years of terror in Stalin 's Russia. EF made Frieda (an invented character among figures from...

He set the action in England to show that the horrors of Stalin ist Russia could occur in any society. The main character, inexplicably dissident Winston Smith, is employed by the Ministry of Truth to...

The late 1920s and middle 30s were marked by massive repressions and imprisonments undertaken by the Communist regime now headed by Joseph Stalin . Battered by the arrests of Osip Mandelstam , a fellow writer...

In 1934 she had a series of meetings with Stalin at Moscow. She was always susceptible to admiration for exceptional energy and force of personality, but her writings about these tyrants suggest that...

RF 's patriotism has been called in question, however, not so much because she spent much of the war in North America and the Caribbean, but because early in the war she chose to...

Belgian refugees descending on her Kentish village early in the First World War reminded EBO of a plague of locusts, and though she says that everyone loved and pitied them, they were also delighted to...

In June 1938 she drew up, along with seven other women, a manifesto for The League for the Protection of the Imagination of Women. The League's feminist mandate was to stimulate original work...

The trip (with another taken by Sidney in 1934) reversed the Webbs' previous opinions of Soviet communism, which they had hitherto (before rising mass unemployment and increasing de-regulation destroyed their faith in the potential improvement...