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Analyzing a Divided World The Cold War Fifties By Anatole Shub When I came to work at The New Leader as an associate editor in February 1949, shortly after graduating from the City...

Koba in Technicolor (July 2004)

Koba in Technicolor Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar By Simon Sebag Montefiore Knopf. 816 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Former Washington "Post" Moscow correspondent and USIA...

Of Russia with Love (November 2002)

Of Russia with Love Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia By Orlando Figes Metropolitan. 729 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Former Moscow correspondent and State...

Indicting the Soviet Past (July 2002)

Writers & Writing Indicting the Soviet Past By Anatole Snub In many respects Russia today is a more normal country than the "stagnant" Soviet Union during Leonid I. Brezhnev's rule, not to...

Bill and Boris (May 2002)

Bill and Boris The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy By Strobe Talbott Random. 478 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Former Russian opinion analyst, U.S. Information...

"Magnitka' and Beyond (November 2001)

'Magnitka' and Beyond Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 By Stephen Kotkin Oxford. 245 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Anatole Snub Former Russian opinion analyst, U.S....

Russia's Woes Remembered (May 2001)

Russia's Woes Remembered Night of Stone: Death and Memory in 20th Century Russia By Catherine Merridale Viking. 402 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "The New Russian...

Scenes from Hell (January 2001)

Writers & Writing Scenes from Hell By Anatole Shub Now that most parts of the former Yugoslavia have begun to calm down, and the Serbs, Croats and Kosovo Albanians have all opted for more...

The Fanatic as Cyclist (September 2000)

The Fanatic as Cyclist Lenin: A Biography By Robert Service Harvard. 561 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope, "The New Russian Tragedy" Unlike "the vast and...

Life with Father (May 2000)

Life with Father ikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower By Sergei N. Khrushchev Penn State. 765 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope, "The New...

The Putin Gamble (March 2000)

Russian Perspectives The Putin Gamble By Anatole Shub It is impossible for anyone to predict with great confidence whether the reign of Vladimir V. Putin as Russia's Number One will be...

Exodus from Vichy France (December 1999)

Exodus from Vichy France A Quiet American: The Secret War of Variati Fry By Andy Marino St. Martin's. 403 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope." "The New...

He Almost Replaced Stalin (June 1999)

He Almost Replaced Stalin Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery By Amy Knight Hill and Wang. 336 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "The New Russian Tragedy," "An...

Studies of a Yeltsin Folly (August 1998)

Studies of a Yeltsin Folly Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus By Carlotta Gall and Thomas de Waal New York University. 416 pp. $26.95. Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power By Anatol...

Russia: The Awful Truth (April 1998)

Russia: The Awful Truth Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime By Dmitri Volkogonov Free Press. 572 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire...

Russia Lost and Found (December 1997)

Russia Lost and Found Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village By Serge Schmemann Knopf. 350 pp. $27.50. Open Lands: Travels Through Russia's Once Forbidden Places By...

Where Angels Feared to Tread (December 1996)

Where Angels Feared to Tread Memoirs By Mikhail S. Gorbachev Doubleday. 760 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope," "The New Russian Tragedy" For decades after...

A Book of Russian Martyrs (August 1996)

A Book of Russian Martyrs Arrested Voices: Resurrecting the Disappeared Writers of the Soviet Regime By Vitaly Shentalinsky Translated by John Crowfoot Introduction by Robert Conquest Free Press....

Blame It on Pasternak (December 1995)

Blame It on Pasternak The Strange Death of the Soviet Empire By David Pryce-Jones Metropolitan. 456pp. $30.00. Autopsy on An Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the...

From Tolstoy to Playboy (June 1995)

From Tolstoy to Playboy The Sexual Revolution in Russia: From the Age of the Czars to Today By Igor S. Kon Translated by James Riordan Free Press. 337 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author...

Portrait of a Fanatic (September 1995)

Portrait of a Fanatic Lenin: A New Biography By Dmitri Volkogonov Translated by Harold Shukman Free Press. 529 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope" SEVENTY YEARS...

The Post-Beria Papers (June 1994)

The Post-Beria Papers Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness ??A Soviet Spymaster By Pavel Sudoplatov and Anatoly Sudoplatov, with Jerrold L. Schecter and Leona P. Schecter Little,...

AT STALIN'S RIGHT HAND (December 1993)

At Stalin's Right Hand_ Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics Conversations with Felix Chuev Ivan R. Dee. 438pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope " History...

A Bolshevik Love Story (May 1993)

A Bolshevik Love Story This I Cannot Forget: The Memoirs of Nikolai Bukharin's Widow By Anna Larina Introduction by Stephen F. Cohen Translated by Gary Kern Norton. 384 pp....

Life Among the Apparatchiki (June 1992)

Life Among the Apparatchiki Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring By Fedor Burlatsky Translated from the Russian by Daphne Skillen Scribner's. 286 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author,...

Papa Knew Best (September 1991)

PAPA KNEW BEST BY ANATOLE SHUB Watching the Russian democratic revolution on CNN and C-Span, I was not altogether surprised. In five visits to the USSR since 1987, I had sensed a...

Tolstoy's Heir (May 1990)

Tolstoy's Heir Memoirs By Andrei Sakharov Translated by Richard Lourie Knopf. 773 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope" Not since Tolstoy's death in 1910 has...

Fear of Foreigners (April 1985)

Fear of Foreigners Russia: The Roots of Confrontation By Robert V. Daniels Harvard. 411 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Former NL managing editor; Moscow correspondent, Washington "Post,"...

'Pas de Deux' in the Balkans (September 1963)

KHRUSHCHEV AND TITO 'Pas de Deux' in the Balkans By Anatole Shub Belgrade "The sun is hotter here I than in Moscow," Nikita Khrushchev remarked on arrival in Belgrade. "Yes," replied...

The Democracy as a Great Power (March 1957)

Eisenhower and the Israeli Crisis the democracy as a great power By Anatole Shub IT IS difficult to be both a great power and a democracy. According to the traditions of pre-democratic history,...

Yalta Papers Then and Now (March 1955)

The time for protest was 1945 Yalta Papers Then and Now By Anatole Shub The publication of official U.S. documents on the Yalta conference (February 4-11, 1945) has stirred political controversy...

Meeting Mendes-France: (December 1954)

His visit to the United States revealed the French Premier to be a highly complicated individual who is very much his own man Meeting Mendes-France By Anatole Shub MEETING Pierre Mendes-France is...

What Do the Liberals Offer?: (October 1954)

WRITERS and WRITING What Do the Liberals Offer? Call to Greatness. By Adlai E. Stevenson. Harpers. 110 pp. $2.25. Realities of American Foreign Policy. By George F. Kennan. Princeton. 120 pp....

Let's Abolish Europe: (September 1954)

A modest proposal Let's Abolish Europe By Anatole Shub LET'S ABOLISH Europe, the man said; we've had nothing but trouble from them. Here we've given them billions of dollars and still they act so...

McCarthy on the Record (September 1954)

WRITERS and WRITING McCarthy on the Record McCarthy and the Communists. By James Rorty and Moshe Decter. Beacon. 100 pp. Cloth, $1.50; paper, $0.75. Reviewed by Anatole Shub THIS IS the fourth...

Mr. Davis Speaks His Mind (March 1954)

Mr. Davis Speaks His Mind But We Were Born Free. By Elmer Davis. Bobbs-Merrill. 229 pp. $2.75. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Reading this book, it is hard to shelve the memories of a thousand Elmer...

HO CHI MINH, COMMUNIST AGENT (April 1950)

Ho Chi Minh, Communist Agent Indo-Chinese Guerilla 'Hero' an Old Stalinist Hack By ANATOLI SHUB THAT big-time propaganda mill that palmed Marshal Tito and Mao Tse-tung off on the United States...

3 MYTHS HELP CONFUSE LIBERALS (April 1950)

3 Myths Help Confuse Liberals By anatole SHUB 1IBERALS today are as skeptical of the charges against Owen Lattimoie, John Service, John Carter Vincent, . Haldore Hanson, Esther Brunausr and the...

SON OF THE DRAGON'S TEETH (March 1950)

Son of the Dragon's Teeth WHY I ESCAPED. The Story of Peter Pirogov. Duett, Sloan and Pearce. 336 pp. $3.50. Reviewed by ANATOLI SHUB PETER PIROGOV is the Soviet Air Force navigator who flew...

THE ABC OF ATOMIC AGREEMENT (February 1950)

The ABC of Atomic Agreement Soviet Proposals Preclude Effective Atom Control By ANATOLE SHUB WITH THE hydrogen bomb has come a great shout for a "hew approach" to the question of international...

A REPLY (May 1949)

A Reply From ANATOLE SHUB 1ET ME ANSWER BRIEFLY: 1. The members-of the execu¦* tive committee of SDA, who Wrote buf did not sign this letter, seem to doubt my, competence as an observer. I...

CLASS STRUGGLE AT CCNY (April 1949)

Class Struggle at CCNY By Anatole Shub C.ITY COLLEGE of New York last week staged a three-day. knock-down, drag-out student strike, replete with chanting picket lines, mounted police,...

AMERICA'S RED DEAN (April 1949)

America's Red Dean By Anatole Shub « THEN HEWLETT JOHNSON, YV 'famed Red Dean of Canterbury; was characterized by what was supposed to be a staid Protestant magazine as "an, openminded...

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SHUB, DAVID

SHUB, DAVID J. DALLIN, ANATOLE

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SHUCK, L. EDWARD Jr.

Shulman, Frederick

Shulman, Lester M.

SHULMAN, MARSHALL D.

SHUSTER, GEORGE N.

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SIEGAL, JOHN

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