Cover: R.B. Kitaj

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Noël Annan
• Neal Ascherson
• Rosemary Ashton
• John Barber
• J.A. Burrow
• Barbara Everett
• Gavin Ewart
• Ian Gilmour
• Graham Hough
• D.A.N. Jones
• Alan Milward
• Rosalind Mitchison
• Michael Neve
• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
• Christopher Reid
• W.G. Runciman
• Nicholas Spice

Contents

• John Barber

  • Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered 1933-1938 by J. Arch Getty
  • The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia by Moshe Lewin

• Letters
  A.N. Wilson, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Victor Lowe, A.J. Ayer, Stanley Poss, Editors, ‘London Review’, Ian Gilmour, Barbara Tuchman

• Neal Ascherson

  • On Writing and Politics: 1967-1983 by Günter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim
  • Günter Grass by Ronald Hayman

• Ian Gilmour

  • Balfour: Intellectual Statesman by Ruddock Mackay
  • Austen Chamberlain: Gentleman in Politics by David Dutton

• Nicholas Spice

  • The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

• Michael Neve

  • Hamlet Closely Observed by Martin Dodsworth
  • Hamlet edited by Philip Edwards
  • The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600 by Roland Mushat Frye

• Barbara Everett

  • Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
  • Pope’s ‘Essay on Man’ by A.D. Nuttall
  • The Last and Greatest Art: Some Unpublished Poetical Manuscripts of Alexander Pope by Maynard Mack
  • The New Oxford Book of 18th-Century Verse by Roger Lonsdale
  • Collected in Himself: Essays Critical, Biographical and Bibliographical on Pope and Some of his Contemporaries by Maynard Mack

• Fiona Pitt-Kethley
  Two Poems

• Graham Hough looks at a collection of American essays which allege a crisis in criticism, and ponders the long history of debate on literary education

  • Criticism in the University edited by Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons

• Noël Annan

  • Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community by Christopher Andrew
  • The Secret Generation by John Gardner
  • Two Thyrds by Bertie Denham
  • The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany 1933-1939 by Wesley Wark

• W.G. Runciman

  • The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Sciences edited by Quentin Skinner
  • Classes by Erik Olin Wright
  • Powers and Liberties: The Causes and Consequences of the Rise of the West by John Hall

• Rosalind Mitchison

  • Water Power in Scotland: 1550-1870 by John Shaw
  • The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. II: 1700-1830, The Industrial Revolution by Michael Flinn and David Stoker
  • Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832-1914 by Sydney Checkland and Olive Checkland
  • The Jacobite Clans of the Great Glen: 1650-1784 by Bruce Lenman
  • The Prince and the Pretender: A Study in the Writing of History by A.J. Youngson
  • Canna: The Story of a Hebridean Island by J.L. Campbell

• Rosemary Ashton

  • Troubled Lives: John and Sarah Austin by Lotte Hamburger and Joseph Hamburger

• J.A. Burrow

  • Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance by Peter Godman

• Gavin Ewart
  Poem: ‘Tallness is all’

• Christopher Reid

  • Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig

• Alan Milward
  Diary

• D.A.N. Jones

  • A Maggot by John Fowles
  • The Romances of John Fowles by Simon Loveday