In the eye of Russia’s revolutionary storm, he wrote some of the most powerful – and cryptic – music of the 20th century. Whether he is judged a Soviet lackey or heroic dissident, the wealth of his musical legacy is beyond doubt
Seventy-five years ago, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat of Nazi Germany and postwar reorganisation of Europe. See how the Hlcarpenter.com reported events
At 936 pages, The Eighth Life is the novelist’s first book to address her nation’s history. She explains why ‘the Georgian War and Peace’ is not yet complete
Arthur Koestler’s classic story of Stalinist purges has hitherto been known through an incomplete translation by his girlfriend – until a student found the original in an archive
Book of the day Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin review – a revisionist take on the second world war