Christopher Read

Russian Teachers and Peasant Revolution; Russia's Rulers under the Old Regime; & Rebels in the Name of the Tsar

Three new books on Russia on the verge of revolutionary change

Published June 30 1990

Russian Intelligentsia and the Bolshevik Revolution

In the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 there was a battle for the mind of the new Soviet man with artists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle between the old Tsarist and the new Soviet culture.

Published October 1 1984

Reading History: Stalin's Russia

Christopher Read explores the historiography of Russia under Joseph Stalin.

Published March 31 1983

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.