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Sheila Fitzpatrick: A Leninist version of Soviet history, 1 September 2005

The Soviet Century 
by Moshe Lewin, edited by Gregory Elliott.
Verso, 416 pp., £25, February 2005, 1 84467 016 3
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... That said, Verso surely published Lewin’s manuscript – and went to the trouble of getting Gregory Elliott to edit it – out of respect for a man who is not only a major scholar of Soviet history but also a figure of distinction in the world of radical historians. On the assumption that many people will approach the book wanting to know how he ...

This Singing Thing

Malin Hay: On Barbra Streisand, 12 September 2024

My Name Is Barbra 
by Barbra Streisand.
Century, 992 pp., £35, November 2023, 978 1 5291 3689 0
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... the Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. It was there that she met her first husband, Elliott Gould. They married in 1963. Gould had been raised in vaudeville, performing in the Catskills from the age of ten, and would go on to star in M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye. But in the early 1960s, he was a Broadway actor trying to break into Hollywood, and ...

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