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Review published on Monday, June 4, 2018
Author: 
Kevin Morgan
Reviewer: 
William Smaldone

Smaldone on Morgan, 'International Communism and the Cult of the Individual: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin'

Kevin Morgan. International Communism and the Cult of the Individual: Leaders, Tribunes and Martyrs under Lenin and Stalin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xii + 363 pp. $109.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-349-71778-1.

Reviewed by William Smaldone (Willamette University) Published on H-Socialisms (June, 2018) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Review published on Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Author: 
Kim van der Zouw, Erik-Jan Zürcher, eds.
Reviewer: 
Zixian Liu

Liu on Zouw and Zürcher, 'Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution'

Kim van der Zouw, Erik-Jan Zürcher, eds. Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Acumen Research Editions Series. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017. 144 pp. $24.99 (paper), ISBN 978-946298181-2.

Reviewed by Zixian Liu (University of Toronto) Published on H-Socialisms (May, 2018) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Review published on Saturday, May 19, 2018
Author: 
Nigel Raab
Reviewer: 
Daniel Schrader

Schrader on Raab, 'All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917–1991'

Nigel Raab. All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917–1991. Montreal: McGill Queen's University Press, 2017. 304 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7735-5002-5.

Reviewed by Daniel Schrader (University of Regensburg) Published on H-Socialisms (May, 2018) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

Review published on Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Author: 
Andrew Cornell
Reviewer: 
Oisin Gilmore

Gilmore on Cornell, 'Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century'

Andrew Cornell. Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. 416 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-520-28673-3; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-520-28675-7.

Reviewed by Oisin Gilmore (Humboldt University) Published on H-Socialisms (April, 2018) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)

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