Richard Gott

Articles by Richard Gott

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Lenin's wonderful Georgian

  • 18 October 2004

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

An original approach

  • 13 September 2004

Observations on Venezuela

Twin demons

  • 12 July 2004

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia Richard Overy Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 849pp, £25 ISBN 071399309X

A paean to peace

  • 10 May 2004

The Unconquerable World: power, non-violence, and the will of the people Jonathan Schell Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 435pp, £20 ISBN 0713997664

A moral stain

  • 23 February 2004
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Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury, 544pp, £20 ISBN 0060006765

Larger than life. Fidel Castro is a liberal utopian of the 19th century rather than a 20th-century totalitarian. He has moved with the times and, thanks to him, Cuba has been spared the neo-liberal chaos that engulfed the former Soviet bloc

  • 09 February 2004

The Real Fidel Castro Leycester Coltman Yale University Press, 335pp, £25 ISBN 0300101880 Fidel Castro: a biography Volker Skierka (translated by Patrick Camiller) Polity Press, 440pp, £25

Nobel beginnings

  • 24 November 2003

Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel GarcIa Marquez. Translated by Edith Grossman Jonathan Cape, 484pp, £18.99 ISBN 0224072781

The fatal legacy. Most books and television programmes about Hitler reflect a taste for pornography, not a thirst for knowledge. What we really need is a history written with an appreciation of today's Germany rather than a jaundiced recollection of its past, argues Richard Gott

  • 10 November 2003

The Coming of the Third Reich Richard J Evans Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 622pp, £25 ISBN 071399648X

Legacy of terror. The 11 September 2003 marked 30 years since Pinochet's coup. Far from representing "the corruption of American values", the US involvement in Chile is typical of its foreign policy, especially in Latin America, writes Richard Gott

  • 15 September 2003

The Pinochet File: a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability Peter Kornbluh The New Press, 548pp, £18.95 ISBN 1565845862

A fogey writes

  • 24 February 2003

Hitler and Churchill: secrets of leadership Andrew Roberts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 202pp, £18.99 ISBN 0297843303

James Macintyre

Inside “Next Labour”

Inside “Next Labour”

John Pilger

The Murdoch empire

Welcome to the first murdochracy

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Gaby Hinsliff

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Bulger killers were damaged, not evil

Mehdi Hasan

The Ashcroft scandal

Paying the price for Ashcroft’s millions

US Politics

Obama's henchmen

Dysfunction at the White House

Film review

Shutter Island

Shutter Island (15)

Interview

Terry Eagleton

The Books Interview: Terry Eagleton

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