John Lloyd

John Lloyd is a former labour editor of the Financial Times and the author of An Anatomy of Russia and Loss without Limit, about the miners’ strike of 1984-85.

In the LRB Archive:

• A Fue Respectable Friends on British brass bands · 5 April 2001

  • The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History by Trevor Herbert

• All Together Now on the British Trade Union · 19 October 2000

  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: Vol. I: The Postwar Compromise, 1945-64 edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al
  • British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics: Vol. II: The High Tide of Trade Unionism, 1964-79 edited by John McIlroy and Nina Fishman et al
  • The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism by Robert Taylor

• Like a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader on globalisation · 2 September 1999

  • The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas Friedman
  • Global Transformation by David Held and Anthony McGrew

• Diary on the Russian reformers’ new party · 15 July 1999

• Diary in Romania · 15 April 1999

• As a Button to a Coat on Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov · 20 August 1998

  • Bitter Waters: Life and Work in Stalin’s Russia by Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov, translated by Ann Healy

• Fathers and Sons · 6 March 1997

  • Informer 001: The Myth of Pavlik Morozov by Yuri Druzhnikov

• The View from Poklonnaya Gora · 3 October 1996

  • Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis by Timothy Colton

• Diary · 4 July 1996

• Aphrodite bends over Stalin · 4 April 1996

• In Fear and Trembling to the Polls · 30 November 1995

• Diary · 20 July 1995

• The Russians Are Coming · 11 May 1995

  • Comrade Criminal: The Theft of the Second Russian Revolution by Stephen Handelman
  • Crime Without Frontiers: The Worldwide Expansion of Organised Crime and the Pax Mafiosa by Clare Sterling
  • Inside Yeltsin’s Russia by John Kampfner
  • A Dishonoured Society by John Follain

• Diary · 12 January 1995

• How to Make a Market · 10 November 1994

  • Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy by Jonathan Steele
  • Post-Communist Societies in Transition by John Gray

• How much is he to blame? · 7 July 1994

  • The View from the Kremlin by Boris Yeltsin, translated by Catharine Fitzpatrick

• He knew he was right · 10 March 1994

  • Scargill: The Unauthorised Biography by Paul Routledge

• Praise Hayek and pass the ammunition · 24 February 1994

  • The Fate of Marxism in Russia by Alexander Yakovlev, translated by Catherine Fitzpatrick
  • Politics and Society in Russia by Richard Sakwa

• How frightened should we be? · 10 February 1994

  • Russia 2010 by Daniel Yergin and Thane Gustafson
  • What About the workers: Workers and the Transition to Capitalism in Russia by Simon Clarke
  • After the Soviet Union: From Empire to Nation edited by Timothy Colton and Robert Levgold

• Will the Empire ever end? · 27 January 1994

  • Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States edited by Ian Bremner and Ray Taras
  • The Post-Soviet Nations edited by Alexander Motyl
  • The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

• October! · 21 October 1993

• The Biggest Nuclear Station on Earth · 8 July 1993

  • Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl by Piers Paul Read

• Ruslan’s Rise · 8 April 1993

  • The Struggle for Russia: Power and Change in the Democratic Revolution by Ruslan Khasbulatov, translated by Richard Sakwa

• Bolshy · 25 February 1993

  • A History of Vodka by William Pokhlebkin, translated by Renfrey Clarke

• Moscow Diary · 7 January 1993

• Why Georgia matters · 19 November 1992

• The best one can hope for · 22 October 1992

  • Soviet Politics, 1917-1991 by Mary McAuley
  • What went wrong with perestroika? by Marshall Goldman
  • Boris Yeltsin: A Political Biography by Vladimir Solovyov and Elena Klepikova

• Diary · 25 June 1992

• Comrades in Monetarism · 28 May 1992

• First you get beaten up, then you beat up others · 26 March 1992

  • Zinky Boys: The Record of a Lost Soviet Generation by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Julia Whitby and Robin Whitby

• Year One · 30 January 1992

  • Boris Yeltsin by John Morrison
  • The August Coup: The Truth and its Lessons by Mikhail Gorbachev
  • The future belongs to freedom by Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Bear-Hunting with the Politburo by A. Craig Copetas
  • The Accidental Proletariat: Workers, Politics and Crisis in Gorbachev’s Russia by Walter Connor

• How have they made it so soon? · 21 November 1991

  • The Soviet Mafia by Arkady Vaksberg, translated by John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts

• Moscow Diary · 12 September 1991

• The Party’s over · 25 July 1991

• Perestroika and its Discontents · 11 July 1991

  • Moscow and Beyond: 1986-1989 by Andrei Sakharov
  • Fatal Half-Measures: The Allure of Democracy in the Soviet Union by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, edited and translated by Antonia Bovis

• What happened to Gorbachev · 7 March 1991

  • Gorbachev: The Making of the Man who shook the World by Gail Sheehy
  • Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin by Dusko Doder and Louise Branson
  • The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union edited by Graham Smith

• Where their real face was known · 6 December 1990

  • The KGB: The Inside Story of the Foreign Operations by Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky
  • Inside the KGB: Myth and Reality by Vladimir Kuzichkin

• Is the Soviet Union over? · 27 September 1990

  • Moving the mountain: Inside the Perestroika Revolutions by Abel Aganbegyan, translated by Helen Szamuely
  • Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform: The Soviet Reform Process by Anders Aslund

• Mr Poland throws a party · 27 July 1989

• Off with her head · 24 November 1988

  • Office without Power: Diaries 1968-72 by Tony Benn

• Claiming victory · 21 November 1985

  • The Miners’ Strike by Geoffrey Goodman
  • Strike: Thatcher, Scargill and the Miners by Peter Wilsher, Donald Macintyre and Michael Jones

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