TABLE OF CONTENTS
Some lost worlds of Eric Hobsbawm: interviews with a communist historian: 1990-2001 Antony Howe pp. 5–29
'Be a better communist': the life story of a Portuguese militant Giulia Strippoli pp. 30–61
An Enduring Enchantment: The Fairy Tale in the DDR, from the Brothers Grimm to 'the Singing Ringing Tree' John Callow pp. 62–102 <https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/tcc16_03callow.pdf>
The Communist Party of Cyprus, the Comintern and the uprising of 1931: thoughts on the 'apologia' of Charalambos Vatyliotis (Vatis) Manolis Choumerianos, Spyros Sakellaropoulos pp. 103–124
Reviews
pp. 125–157 <https://www.lwbooks.co.uk/sites/default/files/tcc16_05reviews.pdf>
Richard J Evans; Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (London: Little, Brown; 2019), 1408707411, 785pp. Reviewed by Willie Thompson.
Chris Holmsted Larsen, Den folkekære stalinist: En biografi om Carl Madsen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2017, ISBN 9788702220353, 543pp. Reviewed by Tauno Saarela.
Massimo Asta, Girolamo Li Causi, Un rivoluzionario del Novecento, Rome: Carocci, 2017, ISBN 978884309048-3, 327pp. Reviewed by Marzia Maccaferri.
Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy. Investigations in a Police File, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018, ISBN9780822370819, xvi + 323 pp. Reviewed by Gavin Bowd.
Balazs Apor, The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 1945–1956, Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017, ISBN 9789633861929, 415pp. Reviewed by Stephen Gundle.
Russell Campbell, Codename Intelligentsia: the Life and Times of the Honourable Ivor Montagu, Filmmaker, Communist, Spy, Stroud, History Press, 2018, ISBN: 9780750987059, 448pp;
Nicholas Griffin, Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World, New York, Skyhorse Publishing, 2015, ISBN: 9781634505567, 336pp. Reviewed by Geoff Andrews.
Geoffrey Swain, A Short History of the Russian Revolution, London, I. B. Tauris, 2017, ISBN 9781780767932 (pbk), 9781780767925 (hbk), 256pp. Reviewed by Francis King.
Kristen Ghodsee, Second World, Second Sex. Socialist Women’s Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War, Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2018, ISBN 978–1-4780-0181-2 (pbk), 978–1-4780-0139-3 (hbk), 328pp. Reviewed by Tanja R. Müller.
Jeremy Friedman, Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, ISBN 9781469645520, x + 294pp. Reviewed by George Odysseos.