Richard Gott

Articles by Richard Gott

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Radical chic

  • 23 April 2009

The Frock-Coated Communist: the Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Tristram Hunt
Allen Lane, 459pp, £25

Paying the piper

  • 07 August 2006

Observations on art

Nazis who clung on

  • 19 June 2006

Observations on Germany

The greatest battle of all

  • 19 June 2006

Moscow 1941: a city and its people at war
Rodric Braithwaite Profile Books, 446pp, £20
ISBN 186197759X

The great divide. Richard Gott on an unashamedly biased account of the US-Soviet stand-off

  • 23 January 2006

The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 352pp, £20
ISBN 0713999128

G8 protest: how far should you go?

  • 13 June 2005

From the Sixties going back to the suffragettes and the Levellers, Britain has a long history of rebellion, both peaceful and illegal. Richard Gott on what today's demonstrators have to learn from the past

A poor defence

  • 23 May 2005

Petain
Charles Williams Little, Brown, 568pp, £30
ISBN 0316861278

Slaves to industry. Victorian artists tended to depict workers in highly idealised terms - if they bothered with them at all. Richard Gott on the forgotten few who painted life as it was

  • 21 March 2005

Men at Work: art and labour in Victorian Britain
Tim Barringer Yale University Press, 379pp, £40
ISBN 0300103808

The living dead. In the age of empire, leprosy haunted the popular imagination. Sufferers faced not just an unpleasant disease, but a battle against ignorance and prejudice. By Richard Gott

  • 07 February 2005
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Don't Fence Me In: leprosy in modern times
Tony Gould
Bloomsbury, 420pp, £20

Lenin's wonderful Georgian

  • 18 October 2004

Stalin: a biography
Robert Service Macmillan, 715pp, £25
ISBN 0333726278

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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