Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm’s piece in this issue was read out at a memorial event for Tony Judt at King’s College, Cambridge last month.

In the LRB Archive:

• After the Cold War: Tony Judt · 26 April 2012

• Everybody behaved perfectly: Hilde’s Two Husbands · 25 August 2011

  • Scientist Spies: A Memoir of My Three Parents and the Atom Bomb by Paul Broda

• A Niche for a Prophet: The Jews of San Nicandro · 3 February 2011

  • The Jews of San Nicandro by John Davis

• Diary: My Days as a Jazz Critic · 27 May 2010

• Poker Face: Palmiro Togliatti · 8 April 2010

  • Palmiro Togliatti: A Biography by Aldo Agosti, translated by Vanna Derosas and Jane Ennis
  • Il sarto di Ulm: Una possibile storia del PCI by Lucio Magri

• C (for Crisis): The 1930s · 6 August 2009

  • The Morbid Age: Britain between the Wars by Richard Overy

• Era of Wonders: Mandarin Science · 26 February 2009

  • Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester

• Responses to the War in Gaza · 29 January 2009

• Diary: Memories of Weimar · 24 January 2008

• Cadres: Communism in Britain · 26 April 2007

  • The Lost World of British Communism by Raphael Samuel
  • Communists and British Society 1920-91 by Kevin Morgan, Gidon Cohen and Andrew Flinn
  • Bolshevism and the British Left, Part One: Labour Legends and Russian Gold by Kevin Morgan

• Could it have been different?: Budapest 1956 · 16 November 2006

  • Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 by Michael Korda
  • Twelve Days: Revolution 1956 by Victor Sebestyen
  • A Good Comrade: Janos Kadar, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough
  • Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati

• Red Science: J.D. Bernal · 9 March 2006

  • J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science by Andrew Brown

• Benefits of Diaspora: the Jewish Emancipation · 20 October 2005

• Retreat of the Male: Revolution in the Family · 4 August 2005

  • Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 by Göran Therborn

• An Assembly of Ghosts: Gorbachev, My Hero · 21 April 2005

• War and Peace in the 20th Century: Epidemic of War · 21 February 2002

• Out of the Great Dark Whale · 31 October 1996

  • A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes

• Captain Swing · 24 November 1994

  • The Duke Ellington Reader edited by Mark Tucker
  • Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America by David Stowe

• The Left’s Megaphone · 8 July 1993

  • Harold Laski: A Political Biography by Michael Newman
  • Harold Laski: A Life on the Left by Isaac Kramnick and Barry Sheerman

• Homesickness · 8 April 1993

  • Jews and the German State: The Political History of a Minority, 1848-1933 by Peter Pulzer
  • The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait by Ruth Gay

• Goodbye Columbus · 9 July 1992

• What difference did she make? · 23 May 1991

  • A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Thatcher by Peter Clarke
  • The Quiet Rise of John Major by Edward Pearce

• Before the Fall · 21 April 1983

  • Europe Transformed 1878-1919 by Norman Stone

• Glory · 3 June 1982

  • War and Society in Revolutionary Europe 1770-1870 by Geoffrey Best
  • European Empires from Conquest to Collapse 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan

• In Search of People’s History · 19 March 1981

  • People’s History and Socialist Theory edited by Raphael Samuel
  • British Labour History by E.H. Hunt

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