Stalin The Man The Rise and Fall of Stalin review
A dense critical survey of Robert Payne’s Stalin biography. It notes Payne’s focus on Stalin as a person while critiquing gaps on the party, revolution context, and the use of sources including Litvinov notes and Alliluyeva’s death account. The review also comments on length, tone, and the book’s evidentiary value.
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Stalin
Robert Payne
W. H. Allen
Price
Lenin
Marino
Krushchev
Payne
Maxim Litvinov
Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluieva
Alliluieva
Elizabeth Lermale
Rosh Kaganovich
Urals
NKVD
Komsomol
Litvinov
Lermolo
Tokaey
Djilas
Extushenko
Australian Poets and Greek Ruins in Penguin Anthology
A critical survey of Penguin Modern and Classics volumes featuring Brennan in Chisholm’s selections with Alexander’s Old English translations, Cavafy Seferis Elytis and Gatsos, and McCrae with Stewart. The review highlights Alexander’s translations, Brennan’s Wanderer resonance, Seferis’s ruins motif, Elytis’s personified verse, and Murphy’s Anglo-Saxon influenced poetics alongside McCrae’s Greek-English blend and Stewart’s introduction remarks.
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Christopher Brennan
A. RB
Chisholm
Hugh McCrae
Douglas Stewart
Angus and Robertson
Michael Alexander
Penguin Classics
C. P. Cavafy
George Seferis
Odysseus Elytis
Nikos Gatsos
Edmund Keeley
Philip Sherrard
Penguin
Penguin Modern Poets
Professor Chisholm
Brennan
Richard Murphy
Concannon
Fee
Urey
Cleggan
Mr Murphy
Cyril Pearl
Sydney
German Life Through West Germany in Life World Library
Terence Prittie and Life editors review Germany in Life World Library. The volume blends geography, history, art and politics with strong photography but weak political maps. It foregrounds West Germany, critiques postwar memory, and notes images from Munich beer halls to East Berlin strikes and Buchenwald depictions.
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Germany
Terence Prittie
Life
Life World Library
East
Charlemagne
Luther
Bismarck
Hitler
Pritie
Munich
East Berlin
Buchenwald
Forms in Japan review by Kajiro and Futagawa
A review of the book Forms in Japan by Yuichiro Kojiro and photographers Futagawa and Kaijiro, praising its superb black and white images of Japanese artifacts and natural objects. It notes the13 point classification system, non logical prose, and translator Yanunda’s fidelity, ending with admiration for the stylish Japanese eye and prints.
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Japan
Yuichro Kajiro
Yukio Futagawa
East - West Center Press
Honolulu
Yeats
Yuichiro Kojiro
Kenneth Yanunda
The World of Bees review by Alurray Holt
A detailed critique of Bodley Head's The World of Bees praising the author’s lifelong beekeeping knowledge and clear biology while faulting the opening aphorism and some style choices. The piece notes strong sections on hive labour dance language practical apiculture and honey chapters with recipes and cautions about mead myths and bee hunting.
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Alurray Holt
Bodley Head
USA
Scout Hees
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