A worthy new biography of the late historian Eric Hobsbawm shows the ardent communist in the crucible of the 20th century
A new memoir by the grandson of a Russian bibliophile is also a great intellectual history of the 20th century
How the British Marxist and anti-Zionist, who died last week, influenced the writing of Jewish history
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