The decision taken at the end of 1929 to proceed to the mass collectivization of Soviet agriculture has always been something of a puzzle. Pronouncements of party leaders up to that time had given no ...

It is difficult to see criticism as anything but an innocent discipline. Its origins seem spontaneous, its existence natural: there is literature, and so—because we wish to understand and appreciate ...

– In 1846, the target was continental expansion, not clear how far downwards and upwards, but essentially contiguous ...

One of T.J. Clark’s objectives in The Painting of Modern Life is to make us ‘unlearn our present ease with Impressionism’, and in this he succeeds magnificently.footnote ＊ By raising the issue of the ...

Hermeneutics first. Nick Adams, the protagonist of Hemingway’s short story ‘Big Two-Hearted River’ (1925), is about to go fishing: Nick took it from his hook book, sitting with the rod across his lap.

Revised transcript of a recorded conversation between Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – August Bank Holiday, 1959. R.W.: I’m glad that at last we’ve managed to meet. Since The Uses of Literacy ...

The Egyptian designer Hassan Fathy was one of those 20th-century architects who were never content with architecture as a straightforward technical discipline, but who used it as a speculative ...

There is much discussion today of the nature and causes of the crisis racking the advanced capitalist countries. How should we define its structural characteristics and draw up an initial balance ...

In the confused interregnum following the death of Tsar Alexander I in December 1825, a group of conspirators dedicated to the introduction of a liberal constitution decided their moment had come.

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform.footnote 1 The ...