Richard Gott
Articles by Richard Gott
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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
- 1 comment
Don't Fence Me In: leprosy in modern times Tony Gould Bloomsbury, 420pp, £20
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Lenin's wonderful Georgian
- 18 October 2004
Stalin: a biography Robert Service Macmillan, 715pp, £25 ISBN 0333726278
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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
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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
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A moral stain
- 23 February 2004
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Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 Frederick Taylor Bloomsbury, 544pp, £20 ISBN 0060006765
World Affairs
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
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Nobel beginnings
- 24 November 2003
Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel GarcIa Marquez. Translated by Edith Grossman Jonathan Cape, 484pp, £18.99 ISBN 0224072781
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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
World Affairs
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
