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Second World War

Grossman’s Stalingrad

Posted on 23rd October 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The year 2019 saw the long overdue publication in English of Vasily Grossman’s Stalingrad, its Russian original having been published in the Soviet Union in 1952 (albeit in censored form).1 Its appearance is particularly welcome to the English-speaking reader because… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised literature, Russia, Second World War

Can we understand the Holocaust?

Posted on 9th October 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Enzo Traverso, Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History, IIRE (2019), £17. Can Marxism help us to understand the Holocaust? Marxism is a body of theoretical and experiential understanding that tries… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Second World War, The Holocaust

War from above, resistance from below

Posted on 22nd June 2016 by Camilla

A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War (Bookmarks, 2015), £13.99 As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Second World War

Two in one?

Posted on 10th April 2013 by ISJ

A review of Donny Gluckstein, A People’s History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (Pluto, 2012), £19.99 The Second World War (1939-1945) was the bloodiest conflict in human history. But for millions it was and still is the… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Book reviews Second World War
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